The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman who was running in Central Park in …

May 31, 2019 · The controversy surrounding the so-called Central Park 5, a group of teenagers wrongfully accused of attacking and raping a woman on April 19 of 1989, has sparked endless …

On April 19, 1989, shortly after 9pm, a group of 33 teenagers went into Central Park at 110th Street and 5th Avenue for the purpose of beating and robbing people in the park – an activity …

May 24, 2019 · On the night of April 19, 1989, police were scrambling to respond to calls about 30 to 40 teens who were harassing people in the park. "Basically we took over that whole park, …

Apr 23, 2014 · DNA identifications had only been invented a few years earlier and were not even permitted in New York courts until six months before the Central Park wilding. Instead, this …

May 27, 2014 · Black and Latino males, particularly the young ones, became a criminal "caste." Dropped into this mélange was the story of black and Latino teens "wilding" in Central Park, …

Jul 8, 2014 · After a heinous crime in a New York greenspace, we stripped five young men of their humanity. They paid dearly for it. The New York City men known as the “Central Park Five” will …

Jun 2, 2019 · The most recent usage came almost 30 years to the day of Meili’s rape, on April 17, 2019, after a reported 500 black youths in Chicago descended on Millennium Park, allegedly …

Jul 20, 2018 · Reports that youths were roaming the park and attacking people gave rise to the term “wilding” for urban mayhem by marauding teenagers. The jogger, Trisha Meili, told the …

Oct 21, 2002 · Five convictions in the 1989 rape of a jogger in New York's Central Park are called into question after DNA tests and a prisoner's admission of guilt.