Police: NY man confesses to killing 3 women

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — Detectives hoping to finally arrest a suspect in a 19-year-old killing in New York City didn’t find him when they went to his apartment this week. But they made another shocking discovery: the body of a woman who had been stabbed nine times in the chest.

Once he was located, Lucius Crawford further surprised investigators by confessing to killing the 42-year-old woman found in his Mount Vernon, N.Y., home, along with two other victims in 1993, police said Wednesday. The carnage fit a horrific pattern of violence against women that began in South Carolina in the 1970s.