You're a perceptive man Billy. Great points.

Not everyone wants kids, and it's certain that not everyone should have them

I hear ya Dude, I do have a 5 year old daughter and I worry about in what kind of a world she'll be living in, in about 25 years or so..

There was a study over here in Holland that said that a majority of the population negatively judged people who chose to be deliberately childless. And if asked why, a lot of people answered that these people were selfish in their eyes.

To me that is absurd and in my eyes it's often the other way around, a lot of people get children for their own needs even if their situation, financial or otherwise, or their relationship isn't very stable, they think a child will change everything..

Flushing Meadows Park, Jamaica Bay, Kissena Park, Forest Park are all full of homeless encampments. I think this is the area to concentrate on.

Don't believe it was the ex boyfriend as every cop in the city seems to be on this case and I'm sure he was grilled thoroughly.

Okay its been almost 2 weeks and no leads, no witnesses, no case.

I wish the NYPD would swallow their pride and bring in the FBI. More resources, better training and more federal money might yield some results.

I think it was more than 1 person who did this..Someone told me that there was a witness who had seen 3 males (blk) walking out of the area. The sketch could be 1 of them. Hoping he'll turn the other 2 in..She was really brutally beaten..That could also be why there was no DNA hit, might be a mixture of DNA...so much for playing Sherlock Holmes.

Stuff like this is not helpful in the slightest.

NYPD Detectives have a DNA profile of the killer, it didn't hit on any national or state databases, so now they're painstakingly going through younger people who committed crimes pre 1998. They also went around giving free bottles of water to the vagrants in the area and then collected them , but none of the vagrants hit the DNA profile either....

Jon Lester, the ringleader in a racial killing by a mob of people in Howard Beach in the 80's recently committed suicide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/...howard-beach-race-attack-dies-at-48.html

Sad, as he seemed to have turned his life around in prison. He was never able to see his family again, as he was banned from returning to America, being a native of Great Britain.

I wonder what became of the other people involved in this thuggery?

Hopefully they turned their lives around.