'I did what I had to do': Woman, 27, who 'stabbed her boyfriend's father, 71, to death' in his Manhattan apartment claims he raped her Jerry Fox, 71, was found dead in the early hours of Wednesday morning in his apartment on Seaman Avenue near West 207th Street in Inwood Cassandra Carter, the girlfriend of Fox's adopted son, was spotted trying to flee the crime scene via a fire escape ladder She told officers she 'did what she had to do' because Fox had raped her A neighbor said Fox had come to his apartment just hours before his death asking to call the police because he was 'physically scared' of her