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Richard Allen Minsky

Richard Allen Minsky (born March 15, 1944), also known as Richard Alan Minsky, is an American former used car salesman who was convicted of multiple charges of rape,[5] assault, battery, extortion, grand theft, larceny, lewd and lascivious behavior, oral copulation, sexual assault, sexual battery, sodomy, and escape.[7] He was charged over 80 times and convicted in more than a dozen trials over a series of scams committed in the states of California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.[5][8]

Richard Allen Minsky
Born (1944-03-15) March 15, 1944 (age 78)
NationalityAmerican
Other namesThe Con Artist Rapist, Dennis,[2] Paul Davidson, Kenneth Miller,[3] Robert Miller,[4] Richard Alan Minsky
OccupationUsed car salesman[5]
Criminal statusServing life sentence at California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, California[6]
Conviction(s)Rape, assault, battery, extortion, grand theft, indecent assault, larceny, lewd and lascivious behavior, oral copulation, sexual assault, sexual battery, sodomy, escape[5][7][8]
Criminal penalty146 years to life in prison[9]

A registered sex offender, Minsky was featured on the television shows America's Most Wanted and Fox Files several times in 1999 and arrested in Tampa, Florida on September 15 of that year.[3][10] After extradition to California, Minsky was sentenced to 146 years to life in prison by the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on November 30, 2001.[9]

Background

Richard Allen Minsky was born in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1944.[1][11] He was a used car salesman who lived in the nearby towns of Brookline and Winthrop.[5][8] According to police, his hobbies included smoking, gambling and betting on horse races.[7]

Sex scam

Detective-III John Metcalf, LAPD, first investigated Minsky in 1982 for the same M.O. involving 4 victims. Metcalf again ran across Minsky in 1998, after his release from a 2-year sentence in Massachusetts. According to Metcalf's testimony, Minsky preyed on women randomly selected from a phone book.[8][9] He was able to imitate voices of various people to aid in the deception.[12] Minsky would start cold calls by whispering at a barely audible level until the victim called out a name, giving him the information needed to continue the ruse.[5] He would then pose as an attorney to convince them that the aforementioned loved one was in legal trouble. In variations of the scam, he would say that the loved one was involved in a hit and run accident that carried a mandatory two-year sentence.[3] He would tell the victim that a witness would have to be bribed with sex or money in order to drop charges so that their loved one would be released from jail. Minsky met with the women as the so-called witness at various locations such as hotels, and sexually assaulted some of them.[9] In some of the cases, he urged the victim to dress provocatively for the meeting.[13] In the 1982 cases Minsky was difficult to prosecute because there was no weapon or threat of bodily injury.[12]

Arrests and incarceration

 
Copley Plaza, where Boston Police arrested Minsky after observing him calling women randomly from a payphone.

Los Angeles Police Department Detective-III John Metcalf started tracking cases involving Minsky in 1982,[5] eventually counting hundreds of victims across California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington.[12][14] Because of Minsky's arrests in 1983, in Georgia and conviction of sodomy, sexual assault, and extortion in Georgia and Florida,[7] Metcalf's arrest warrant was recalled in the interest of justice. In January 1985, Minsky pleaded no contest in a trial for the September 1982 rape of a Fort Lauderdale woman. In exchange for the plea bargain, Assistant Florida State Attorney John Jolly dropped related charges of extortion and grand theft. Broward County Circuit Judge Patti Henning sentenced Minsky to fifteen years in prison for the rape,[4] of which he served about 11 years including time served.[5]

In 1994, Minsky posed as a lawyer named Dennis to lure a woman from the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts to Plum Island with information supposedly exposing an extramarital affair her husband was having.[2] After he brought the victim to the island, he beat her with a plank and raped her.[15] Minsky was interviewed by Detective Metcalf, during Minsky's extradition to California on their charges, regarding his involvement in the Plum Island rape. Minsky denied any involvement and local authorities declined to prosecute based partially on the victim's previous false police reports, according to local authorities. On December 7, 1996, Minsky was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts and charged with three counts each of attempted extortion and assault, and one count of failing to register as a sex offender. Minsky was wrapped in a windbreaker to hide his identity during a court hearing where his bail was set at $13,000.[8] Boston Police detective William Hartford stated that Minsky spent over 90 minutes at a payphone with a bag of dimes at the Copley Plaza Hotel, randomly calling women from the Boston and Cambridge phone books.[7] Minsky told the women that he was holding their friends or family hostage and demanded sex as ransom. One of the women called contacted the police from her car phone.[8] He was convicted of indecent assault and battery. He was released from a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in June 1998, but again failed to register as a sex offender and skipped probation.[7] Within two weeks, Minsky struck again in Los Angeles and was sought for parole violations in connection with crimes against eleven women in Southern California and stealing approximately $50,000.[5] Metcalf sought help in finding Minsky by profiling him on Fox Files in April and June 1999.[9] According to Metcalf, during this time Minsky shared photos of two of his puppies with an acquaintance by mail. In the background of photo of the puppies were a newspaper and the apartment building of Minsky's residence. Cindy Smith, a producer with America's Most Wanted, recognized the newspaper as from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Copies of the photos containing the picture of the apartment building, believed to be Minky's residence, were sent to the Raleigh-Durham Police Department and there an officer recognized it as an apartment he had lived at. Officers responding to the location discovered that Minsky had abandoned the unit after America's Most Wanted had profiled him again on July 31. When officers arrived, they discovered he had left behind his belongings and puppies and the television was still turned to the station that showed America's Most Wanted.[2][3]

 
Minsky was arrested at a Tampa International Airport terminal during his final scam attempt in 1999.

On September 15, 1999, at 9:50 p.m., Minsky was arrested at Tampa International Airport by airport police officers. Minsky attempted to scam another woman the previous day by asking her to bring $5,000 to the airport.[10] His bail was set at $1 million and he was extradited to California.[16] During an interview with America's Most Wanted, Minsky, when asked if he had any remorse for his crimes, stated, "Of course I do now that I'm caught, but what am I supposed to do; I'm a parolee. Work for $10 an hour?" At Minsky's trial the segment containing his statement was played for the jury, sealing his fate.

Life sentence

 
Minsky is serving a life sentence at California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo.

On March 29, 2001, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County charged Minsky with offenses committed against eight women between June and October 1998.[16] Deputy District Attorney Linda Loftfield said that Minsky committed "one of the cruelest crimes that anyone could contemplate." Minsky's defense attorneys argued that his actions may have been morally wrong, but that he broke no law. In October 2000, the jury convicted Minsky of multiple charges of rape, oral copulation, and grand theft. On November 30, 2001, he was sentenced to 146 years to life in prison by Superior Court Judge Marsha N. Revel, who stated: "Thankfully, there aren't many Mr. Minskys in the world; this is just pure evilness and sadisticness."[9] Eight of Minsky's victims were present in the courtroom and applauded or wept when the sentence was announced.[17]

Minsky appealed the verdict in 2003, but the 2nd District Court of the California Courts of Appeal rejected Minsky's argument that the threat of jail time used in his scam did not meet the definition of duress required in a rape conviction.[13] Minsky was assigned inmate number T39189 and is incarcerated at California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Richard Minsky". BirthDetails.com. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
  2. ^ a b c Crowley, Cathleen F. (1999-09-18). "Rape victim ready to face accused". The Eagle-Tribune. Archived from the original on 2005-03-29. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  3. ^ a b c d "Detectives Requesting Public's Help in Locating Richard Alan Minsky". Los Angeles Police Department. 1999-09-07. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  4. ^ a b Anderson, Mary (1985-01-24). "Man Gets 15-year Term In Rape-by-trickery Case". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Raouf, Neda (1999-09-09). "Police Fear Scam Artist Has Returned to Los Angeles". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  6. ^ a b "Inmate Locator: Minsky, Richard Allen (CDCR #T39189)". California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. 2001-12-19. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Police seek convicted con man, rapist". South Coast Today. Associated Press. 1999-06-30. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Thompson, Carolyn (1996-12-10). "Man tried to trick women into sex". South Coast Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Gorman, Anna (2001-12-01). "Rapist in Sex Scam Case Sentenced to Life in Prison". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  10. ^ a b (PDF). Tampa International Airport. 1999-09-16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  11. ^ "Massachusetts man arrested". Sun Journal. Associated Press. 1999-09-18. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
  12. ^ a b c . Fox News Channel. 2010-06-21. Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  13. ^ a b Griesser, Andy (2003-02-07). . ABA Journal. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  14. ^ "Serial Rapist Gets Life Sentence". Orlando Sentinel. 2001-12-02. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  15. ^ Curley, Katie (2009-09-30). "Police: Women should be cautious". The Daily News of Newburyport. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  16. ^ a b Decker, Twila (2001-03-29). "Alleged Con Man to Stand Trial in Sex Assault Cases". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  17. ^ "Serial rapist sentenced to 146 years". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Associated Press. 2001-12-02. Retrieved 2010-06-27.

External links

  • People v. Richard A. Minsky, B155109 (CA Superior Court No. BA175204), January 23, 2003
  • People v. Minsky, 129 Cal. Rptr. 2d 583 - CA Court of Appeal, 2nd Dist., January 23, 2003
  • People v. Minsky, 67 P. 3d 644 - CA Supreme Court, April 16, 2003
  • People v. Minsky, 105 P. 3d 115 - CA Supreme Court, January 26, 2005

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For the American bookbinder see Richard Minsky Richard Allen Minsky born March 15 1944 also known as Richard Alan Minsky is an American former used car salesman who was convicted of multiple charges of rape 5 assault battery extortion grand theft larceny lewd and lascivious behavior oral copulation sexual assault sexual battery sodomy and escape 7 He was charged over 80 times and convicted in more than a dozen trials over a series of scams committed in the states of California Florida Georgia Massachusetts and Pennsylvania 5 8 Richard Allen MinskyBorn 1944 03 15 March 15 1944 age 78 Danvers Massachusetts 1 NationalityAmericanOther namesThe Con Artist Rapist Dennis 2 Paul Davidson Kenneth Miller 3 Robert Miller 4 Richard Alan MinskyOccupationUsed car salesman 5 Criminal statusServing life sentence at California Men s Colony in San Luis Obispo California 6 Conviction s Rape assault battery extortion grand theft indecent assault larceny lewd and lascivious behavior oral copulation sexual assault sexual battery sodomy escape 5 7 8 Criminal penalty146 years to life in prison 9 A registered sex offender Minsky was featured on the television shows America s Most Wanted and Fox Files several times in 1999 and arrested in Tampa Florida on September 15 of that year 3 10 After extradition to California Minsky was sentenced to 146 years to life in prison by the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on November 30 2001 9 Contents 1 Background 2 Sex scam 3 Arrests and incarceration 3 1 Life sentence 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksBackground EditRichard Allen Minsky was born in Danvers Massachusetts in 1944 1 11 He was a used car salesman who lived in the nearby towns of Brookline and Winthrop 5 8 According to police his hobbies included smoking gambling and betting on horse races 7 Sex scam EditDetective III John Metcalf LAPD first investigated Minsky in 1982 for the same M O involving 4 victims Metcalf again ran across Minsky in 1998 after his release from a 2 year sentence in Massachusetts According to Metcalf s testimony Minsky preyed on women randomly selected from a phone book 8 9 He was able to imitate voices of various people to aid in the deception 12 Minsky would start cold calls by whispering at a barely audible level until the victim called out a name giving him the information needed to continue the ruse 5 He would then pose as an attorney to convince them that the aforementioned loved one was in legal trouble In variations of the scam he would say that the loved one was involved in a hit and run accident that carried a mandatory two year sentence 3 He would tell the victim that a witness would have to be bribed with sex or money in order to drop charges so that their loved one would be released from jail Minsky met with the women as the so called witness at various locations such as hotels and sexually assaulted some of them 9 In some of the cases he urged the victim to dress provocatively for the meeting 13 In the 1982 cases Minsky was difficult to prosecute because there was no weapon or threat of bodily injury 12 Arrests and incarceration Edit Copley Plaza where Boston Police arrested Minsky after observing him calling women randomly from a payphone Los Angeles Police Department Detective III John Metcalf started tracking cases involving Minsky in 1982 5 eventually counting hundreds of victims across California Florida Georgia Massachusetts North Carolina Pennsylvania Virginia and Washington 12 14 Because of Minsky s arrests in 1983 in Georgia and conviction of sodomy sexual assault and extortion in Georgia and Florida 7 Metcalf s arrest warrant was recalled in the interest of justice In January 1985 Minsky pleaded no contest in a trial for the September 1982 rape of a Fort Lauderdale woman In exchange for the plea bargain Assistant Florida State Attorney John Jolly dropped related charges of extortion and grand theft Broward County Circuit Judge Patti Henning sentenced Minsky to fifteen years in prison for the rape 4 of which he served about 11 years including time served 5 In 1994 Minsky posed as a lawyer named Dennis to lure a woman from the town of Haverhill Massachusetts to Plum Island with information supposedly exposing an extramarital affair her husband was having 2 After he brought the victim to the island he beat her with a plank and raped her 15 Minsky was interviewed by Detective Metcalf during Minsky s extradition to California on their charges regarding his involvement in the Plum Island rape Minsky denied any involvement and local authorities declined to prosecute based partially on the victim s previous false police reports according to local authorities On December 7 1996 Minsky was arrested in Boston Massachusetts and charged with three counts each of attempted extortion and assault and one count of failing to register as a sex offender Minsky was wrapped in a windbreaker to hide his identity during a court hearing where his bail was set at 13 000 8 Boston Police detective William Hartford stated that Minsky spent over 90 minutes at a payphone with a bag of dimes at the Copley Plaza Hotel randomly calling women from the Boston and Cambridge phone books 7 Minsky told the women that he was holding their friends or family hostage and demanded sex as ransom One of the women called contacted the police from her car phone 8 He was convicted of indecent assault and battery He was released from a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in June 1998 but again failed to register as a sex offender and skipped probation 7 Within two weeks Minsky struck again in Los Angeles and was sought for parole violations in connection with crimes against eleven women in Southern California and stealing approximately 50 000 5 Metcalf sought help in finding Minsky by profiling him on Fox Files in April and June 1999 9 According to Metcalf during this time Minsky shared photos of two of his puppies with an acquaintance by mail In the background of photo of the puppies were a newspaper and the apartment building of Minsky s residence Cindy Smith a producer with America s Most Wanted recognized the newspaper as from Raleigh Durham North Carolina Copies of the photos containing the picture of the apartment building believed to be Minky s residence were sent to the Raleigh Durham Police Department and there an officer recognized it as an apartment he had lived at Officers responding to the location discovered that Minsky had abandoned the unit after America s Most Wanted had profiled him again on July 31 When officers arrived they discovered he had left behind his belongings and puppies and the television was still turned to the station that showed America s Most Wanted 2 3 Minsky was arrested at a Tampa International Airport terminal during his final scam attempt in 1999 On September 15 1999 at 9 50 p m Minsky was arrested at Tampa International Airport by airport police officers Minsky attempted to scam another woman the previous day by asking her to bring 5 000 to the airport 10 His bail was set at 1 million and he was extradited to California 16 During an interview with America s Most Wanted Minsky when asked if he had any remorse for his crimes stated Of course I do now that I m caught but what am I supposed to do I m a parolee Work for 10 an hour At Minsky s trial the segment containing his statement was played for the jury sealing his fate Life sentence Edit Minsky is serving a life sentence at California Men s Colony in San Luis Obispo On March 29 2001 the Superior Court of Los Angeles County charged Minsky with offenses committed against eight women between June and October 1998 16 Deputy District Attorney Linda Loftfield said that Minsky committed one of the cruelest crimes that anyone could contemplate Minsky s defense attorneys argued that his actions may have been morally wrong but that he broke no law In October 2000 the jury convicted Minsky of multiple charges of rape oral copulation and grand theft On November 30 2001 he was sentenced to 146 years to life in prison by Superior Court Judge Marsha N Revel who stated Thankfully there aren t many Mr Minskys in the world this is just pure evilness and sadisticness 9 Eight of Minsky s victims were present in the courtroom and applauded or wept when the sentence was announced 17 Minsky appealed the verdict in 2003 but the 2nd District Court of the California Courts of Appeal rejected Minsky s argument that the threat of jail time used in his scam did not meet the definition of duress required in a rape conviction 13 Minsky was assigned inmate number T39189 and is incarcerated at California Men s Colony in San Luis Obispo 6 See also EditImpostor Spanish PrisonerReferences Edit a b Richard Minsky BirthDetails com Retrieved 2010 09 23 a b c Crowley Cathleen F 1999 09 18 Rape victim ready to face accused The Eagle Tribune Archived from the original on 2005 03 29 Retrieved 2010 06 29 a b c d Detectives Requesting Public s Help in Locating Richard Alan Minsky Los Angeles Police Department 1999 09 07 Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b Anderson Mary 1985 01 24 Man Gets 15 year Term In Rape by trickery Case South Florida Sun Sentinel Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b c d e f g h i Raouf Neda 1999 09 09 Police Fear Scam Artist Has Returned to Los Angeles Los Angeles Times Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b Inmate Locator Minsky Richard Allen CDCR T39189 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 2001 12 19 Retrieved 2010 10 26 a b c d e f Police seek convicted con man rapist South Coast Today Associated Press 1999 06 30 Retrieved 2010 06 29 a b c d e f Thompson Carolyn 1996 12 10 Man tried to trick women into sex South Coast Today Associated Press Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b c d e f Gorman Anna 2001 12 01 Rapist in Sex Scam Case Sentenced to Life in Prison Los Angeles Times Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b Airport police arrest one of America s Most Wanted PDF Tampa International Airport 1999 09 16 Archived from the original PDF on 2010 11 29 Retrieved 2010 06 27 Massachusetts man arrested Sun Journal Associated Press 1999 09 18 Retrieved 2010 09 25 a b c FOX Report 6 21 2010 at 12 00 AM Transcript Fox News Channel 2010 06 21 Archived from the original on 2011 10 09 Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b Griesser Andy 2003 02 07 Sex Under Duress Cal Court Upholds Rape Conviction for Ruse to Obtain Sex ABA Journal Archived from the original on August 21 2008 Retrieved 2010 06 27 Serial Rapist Gets Life Sentence Orlando Sentinel 2001 12 02 Retrieved 2010 06 27 Curley Katie 2009 09 30 Police Women should be cautious The Daily News of Newburyport Retrieved 2010 06 27 a b Decker Twila 2001 03 29 Alleged Con Man to Stand Trial in Sex Assault Cases Los Angeles Times Retrieved 2010 06 29 Serial rapist sentenced to 146 years Lubbock Avalanche Journal Associated Press 2001 12 02 Retrieved 2010 06 27 External links EditPeople v Richard A Minsky B155109 CA Superior Court No BA175204 January 23 2003 People v Minsky 129 Cal Rptr 2d 583 CA Court of Appeal 2nd Dist January 23 2003 People v Minsky 67 P 3d 644 CA Supreme Court April 16 2003 People v Minsky 105 P 3d 115 CA Supreme Court January 26 2005 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard Allen Minsky amp oldid 1099741992, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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