Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News
Thu, March 7, 2024 rbbm
NYPD Cold Case Squad looks at 1980 Manhattan murder of voice coach for Maya Angelou, Roberta Flack, Paul Robeson
What he found in a Manhattan apartment the morning of April 5, 1980, has stayed to this day with Carlos Gueits-Bonilla, a former opera singer. His voice teacher and friend, Frederick Wilkerson — whose celebrity pupils included Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou and Paul Robeson — was dead in his Upper...
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His voice teacher and friend, Frederick Wilkerson — whose celebrity pupils included Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou and Paul Robeson — was dead in his Upper West Side bedroom, strangled and with several broken ribs.
Gueits-Bonilla sent an email last year to former Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, whom he knew socially when he lived in Washington, D.C. That email helped bring new NYPD attention to the case.
NYPD Detective Robert Deckert, a member of the Cold Case Squad, hopes modern forensic analyses and a re-examination of fingerprints and other evidence will help crack the case.''
''The detectives determined that Wilkerson had two men to his place the night before he was found dead.
The three men went to Wilkerson’s bedroom for an encounter that went horribly wrong''
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