KINGSTON, N.Y. — A state police investigator spent much of the day Friday, June 8, on the witness stand in Ulster County Court identifying photographs taken as part of the investigation into the Oct. 29, 2022, death of David “Mickey” Myer.Joseph E. Karolys, 39, is charged with first-degree manslaughter, assault, tampering with physical evidence and […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. — A witness who served time in jail with Joseph E. Karolys testified in Ulster County Court Thursday, June 6, that Karolys bragged to him that he kicked David “Mickey” Myer so hard “he split his head open like a watermelon.”The witness said Karolys also implicated Michael Cummins in Myer’s death and said […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. A small baggie containing an unidentified “white powder” was found only a few feet from where Daniel Spotards’ body was discovered on his Plattekill driveway, the first state trooper on the scene said during the trial of his alleged killers in Ulster County Court on Friday. At about 5:50 p.m. Jan. 1, […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Autopsy photos of Daniel Spotards are “evidence of an execution,” and are so “horrifying” and “graphic,” that they were ruled inadmissible and kept from jurors by Judge Stephen Schick. Medical examiner Dr. Kia Newman testified Thursday that Spotards, 42, was shot eight times, including in the forehead, cheek and neck. Spotards was […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. The only man convicted for the killing of Myron Moye declared his innocence Tuesday as he was sentenced in Ulster County Court to 25 years in state prison. Jacob Jackson, 24, of Rosendale, told Visiting Judge James Farrell he had his “reasons” for pleading guilty to manslaughter in connection with Moye’s Nov […]