NY - Nadine Slade, 15, found nude & strangled w. own bra, in bathroom @ home, Queens, 7 May '92, Arrested, Jerry Lewis, 58, of Virginia,*DNA 2023*

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• Cold case slay solved 30 years after 15-year-old NYC girl found strangled with her own bra : ‘Just glad he got caught’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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• Nadine Slade and Jerry Lewis. Lewis is accused of murdering Nadine in 1992. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
• May 1 2023
• Man Charged With Murder in 31-Year-Old Cold Case Killing Of Queens Teen: DA
• ''A Virginia man was indicted and arraigned Monday on a murder charge for the 1992 death of a 15-year-old girl who was found naked and strangled in her Queens home, the local district attorney's office announced.
• Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jerry Lewis, 58, of Shawsville, Virginia, was arraigned for second-degree murder in connection to the 31-year-old cold case.
• The murder charge that Lewis faces are in connection to events that took place on May 7, 1992. According to prosecutors, it was on that day that Lewis strangled Nadine Slade with her own bra.''

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''Slade, a teen, was found by her mother in the bathroom that was shared by two apartments in their multi-family Far Rockaway home.

According to prosecutors Lewis and Slade did not know each other, -- however, Lewis and others were in an adjoining apartment, which used the bathroom, the night before the tragic murder.

A break in the unsolved 1990s case came when Katz and the NYPD requested the city's Medican Examiner's Office test for DNA under Slade's preserved fingernail clippings.''

 

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Opinion: Queens district attorney’s Cold Case Unit solves backlog of cases, brings closure for families — Queens Daily Eagle

 

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Virginia man convicted of 1992 cold case murder of Far Rockaway teenage girl: DA – QNS

It took more than 33 years and 8 months for justice to be meted out against a Virginia man in the cold-case murder of a teenage girl in Far Rockaway that

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January 26, 2026
''Three decades after the homicide, DA Katz’s Cold Case Unit and the NYPD Cold Case Squad requested additional DNA testing of the victim’s preserved fingernail clippings. A DNA profile was developed in 2022 and linked to Lewis, who is a convicted sex offender after pleading guilty to sodomizing an 88-year-old Queens woman at knifepoint in 2015. He was interviewed by detectives in March 2023 when he appeared for a scheduled parole visit. The investigation also included multiple witness interviews and extensive record searches, and Lewis was arrested on the murder charge on May 1, 2023, after he was indicted by a Queens grand jury.''

''The defendant is due back in court for sentencing on Feb. 17 and faces 25 years to life in prison.''