From the Staten Island Advance: “STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Justice was served Friday in deadly Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath as a Staten Island jury convicted a Queens man of slaying his former girlfriend in her Stapleton apartment 13 years ago. Carl Allen was found guilty in state Supreme Court, St. George, of brutally bludgeoning and stabbing Noemi Ortiz to death on Sept. 4, 1999.”

New evidence emerged and “Detective Wendell Stradford of NYPD’s Cold Case Squad reinvestigated the case, along with Assistant District Attorneys Wanda DeOliveira and Ann Thompson.” The complete article is here.