Sakara, a regular, was ″a very cautious man,″ Kenrick said. Guillermo Mendez, 50, was not seen in a bar and has the weakest connection to the other victims.Īll the men were dismembered, their decomposing body parts found in plastic bags in New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania.įive Oaks manager John Kenrick says Sakara’s slaying is puzzle. Anthony Morrero, 44, was seen in various gay bars before he disappeared. Two victims, Thomas Mulcahy, 57, and Peter Anderson, 54, were last seen at the Townhouse, a gay bar and restaurant on the East Side of Manhattan. Police have tentatively linked Sakara’s death to those of several other gay or bisexual men over the last two years. Sakara, a 56-year-old typesetter at the New York Law Journal, had last been seen at the Five Oaks, a Greenwich Village piano bar.
Michael Sakara’s head and arms were found in a garbage can July 31 in suburban Rockland County, and what apparently was his torso was found more than a week later eight miles away beside a highway. If something feels even a little off with this guy, make an excuse with a smile,″ it says.Įven by the standards of hardened New Yorkers, the slayings were gruesome. Introduce him to your old and new friends, and to the bartender,″ it suggests. It cautions gays to spend some time getting to know someone before leaving with them.
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The city’s Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project and other activists are distributing leaflets warning that a serial murderer may be stalking gay men. Still, activists are using the publicity surrounding the slayings to push for greater police protection - and self-protection within the gay community. ″People are cautious, but they’re getting on with their lives.″ ″In New York you can always get mugged or something,″ he said. ″It’s just a reminder that there are a lot of sick people out there.″Īt Splash, a gay bar in Manhattan’s Chelsea section, a patron who would give his name only as Alan said Monday evening that gay men in the city are not ″going around afraid.″ ″It’s frightening, of course, but you always have to be careful,″ said Gary Lacinski, an advertising director of the gay weekly Homo Xtra. So news that a serial murderer may be stalking middle-aged men in New York City gay bars, hacking them up and dumping their dismembered bodies is provoking worry rather than terror. NEW YORK (AP) _ For gay men, death has been a grim reality in the decade since AIDS exploded street violence is always a lurking threat.