Death Wish

I got the VOL vehicle.

“Oh man, it's found dead inside a car in Manhattan.”

Where it's the owner is Jeffrey B. Locker.

Jeffrey Locker was a man who had on the surface the American dream. There is no such thing as failure. There's only learning opportunities and chances to reinvent. He lived in one of the most affluent neighborhoods of suburban New York. Most of the people who lived there are millionaires.

He had this Facebook site that had pictures of nothing but the happy perfect American family. No, it's called me and she said Jeff's been murdered. And I said no, no, no, this can't be, you know, it's just can't be. I mean, he was somebody that was a really kind, generous, loving, integrity-filled person. Jeffrey Locker created a wonderful personal industry for himself as a highly demanded motivational

speaker. I can get everything in this world that I want. If I'm willing to help enough other people

get exactly what they want first.

Jeffrey Locker was found in one of the roughest, most difficult parts in New York City in Harlem. My name is Murray Wise. I was working at the New York Post as the criminal justice editor on the day Jeffrey Locker was found dead in East Harlem in his car. The initial idea was that it was some type of robbery. But he had the legatures, he had the stab wounds, the hands tied behind the back.

It just seemed like a lot going on for a simple street robbery.

“And it was not a simple street robbery, what could it be?”

This particular victim was reported missing by his family the night before. He called his home at one point and he told his wife that he had a flat tire in that, some people who come to help him. But they would start looking at the car that didn't appear to me that he had a flat at all. I'm starting to think that it's something wrong here. We went out to his house, his wife was there. Then we had a town we found, a husband's body,

where it was that he had passed away. The reaction of the kids and her, I couldn't put my finger on it right then and there. People handle grief differently. But to me, something was not right. The initial investigations and any homicide is to canvas to see if anybody saw anything.

“At first I seen him circle the block a couple of times, you know what I said? What do you want?”

And then he told me. Do what needs to be done when it needs to be done without taking no front answer from anyone, especially from yourself? I said, you're out of your mind. You're out of your mind. I mean, every case is different. This pretty much takes the cake. No. Completely impossible.

You know, I've covered 30 or 1,000 homicides. There's never been a story like this one. Never.

[Music] Strange that he would end up down there, huh? Well, absolutely was. New York City Police Detective Robert Stewart started noticing all sorts of strange things when Jeffrey Locker was found here, stabbed to death in front of a Harlem Housing Project in July 2009. Jeffrey Locker was an upper middle class individual with a nice home and long island.

Locker was 52, the father of three, his Facebook page, filled with those images of a tight-knit family. And there was a reason it looked like he was a victim of a robbery. His ATM card was not amongst his belongings. Poor guy comes in from Long Island. Next thing, you know, he's slumped to dead out his steering wheel. To New York Post reporter Laura Italiano, it fit a pattern every New Yorker has seen before.

Jeffrey Locker was in the wrong place at the wrong time and trusted the wrong people. Your typical suburban cautionary tale, you know, lock your doors when you drive through some of these neighborhoods. But then a witness told police Locker bought condoms in a local store and detective suspected he was looking for a prostitute. The double life story is a much better

30 years and he had news for the reporters and the cops. There was no way Locker was in Harlem to visit a prostitute. Locker was devoted to his wife Lois. My wife told me this morning I can't even say hello in 15 minutes. One of the last things he said to me when last time we were together is Lois is my best friend. Just a few weeks before Jeff was killed, Denonzio was at a family celebration in honor of Lois and Jeff's daughter. It seemed like a gala event. One of the most loving

families I ever met. The police theories were collapsing. Despite what that witness said, police could find no evidence that Locker bought condoms or was looking for sex or drugs. But police did know Jeffry Locker had no business being in that neighborhood. His business usually took him

“far from Harlem closer to Wall Street. Life is all about timing. That's where he became a very”

successful motivational speaker, specializing in the insurance industry. How do we keep our existing clients known we love and appreciate them while we're fishing for new prospects? My image of Jeff

as a well-dressed guy who always was success. Insurance executive Robert Miller says Locker seemed

to know how to encourage insurance salesmen who he says frequently feel under-appreciated. Be a giver. Be a resource. Help people first. He was very self-confident. He had good presence. In the early 90s, Owl brought back hired Locker as his personal business coach. He'd go over various activities. What he felt I was doing right, what I could do better at. A few years later, Brad Beck didn't need Locker anymore, and he lost sight of the man

who seemed for so long to be a rising star. But Locker still had that house in this expensive suburb on New York's Long Island,

when NYPD detectives went to tell Locker's family he was dead. It's never easy to tell somebody

that it just lost a family member, but it's part of the job. Detectives Kevin Flynn and Jeff Hirschman brace themselves for what is almost always a highly emotional, traumatic meaning. But they needn't have bothered. They don't think Mrs. Locker got very emotional. Nor did the kids when the detectives watched her break the news to them. They didn't seem

“to take it as a shock. I remember the daughter saying that she's going back to bed.”

It was like we would tell him something they already knew. And then we walked out the door. Jeff looked at me and I looked at Jeff. I said, "Are we in bizarre world?" Unless this is the way to handle grief, which could very well be possible. I'm not making any judgments that was weird. It was just weird. They told other detectives about their visit with the lockers, but the case started moving quickly. Surveillance cameras caught pictures of a man entering

Locker's car around the time police believe Locker was killed and leaving shortly after. And then police heard from Locker's bank about that missing ATM card. We received at least five different locations in which someone accessed the victim's ATM card. Whoever it was got $1100. And it was all caught on security cameras. The police quickly got these videos from corner stores and small businesses all over the neighborhood. At each location

it was the same individual using the ATM card. We had stills made of the pictures, and eventually some said, "No, that's Kenneth Miner." Kenneth Miner, that's correct.

They hauled in Kenneth Miner. It was not his first brush with the law. He had a record of

drug violations and a robbery, a sad profile that fits many murderers, but Kenneth Miner had a story unlike any other murder suspect. Nobody wanted to believe me.

“It all started when he met Locker on a street corner in Harlem. What did he say?”

He said that he was looking for a gun. A gun, yeah. The act of what he wanted for when he was crying for a sec. And then he told me, "I want you to shoot me." He said, "I just like that."

is that we don't have any technical forecasts for ourselves. We can all go over the back end and the front end steuers. And so it was like to go over the online shop. If you buy a shopping file, then you will get the platform that's actually a file. You just see the big deal. Our whole business is going to be over shopping. Now let's start a cost-in-law test on Shopify.com. You just killed this rich man. And I just sat there with a smirk on my face. Like, you know,

you have no idea. You know, this is not what happened. For more than 10 hours Kenneth Miner sat in

“the interrogation room telling police essentially nothing. I mean, how do I approach this situation?”

How do I even start to open up and tell him? Who would believe? Historian. He wanted to explain that Jeffrey Locker had asked, in fact, practically begged to be killed.

Finally, he found what he thought were the right words. This was a kaborkian. He had said that

this may want to do a kaborkian. Detective Robert Stewart was one of the detectives talking to Miner, a kaborkian, a kaborkian. Like, Dr. kaborkian? Yes. The suicide doctor, exactly. I said, do you know what that means? He said, yes, suicide. I said, okay, there you go. Now have a seat. He was ready to tell his story. It began on that street corner in Harlem. I had a real drinking problem. And I needed to make a couple extra dollars. So I was buying drugs and reselling them at a

higher price. And then Mr. Locker pulled up. Locker got out of his car. You could tell by his body language.

“He wanted something, but he didn't know how to hack for it. So I approached him. What do you want?”

Locker, he says, wanted someone to get him a gun. That's when I told him to get the get out of here. Get away from me. You got to be pulled. He's get out of here. He jumped in the car and he left. And then what happened? He came back, which impressed me. So at that point, Canada says he leans into the car. And Jeffrey Locker tells him I want you to shoot me. I want you to shoot me to kill me. He said that? Yeah. Jeffrey Locker says to kind of minor shoot me. Mm-hmm. So I mean, in your 37 years

as a detective, have you ever had anybody say something quite like that? No. No, this was the first.

Do you remember how he said I want somebody to shoot me? When do you remember what tone of voice he had? It was a quiet like it was eerie. Eerie. Yeah, it was I thought he was pulling my chain. But he got my attention. Miner says he was an interested in shooting Locker just yet, but he thought he might make some money. If he could sell Locker a gun. So he tells him to give me $60 and you phone number.

And I'll go see if I can find somebody to help you. He came up with a $60 pretty quickly. Yeah. There you go. Kind of minor tells him. I'll call you. Canada's minor knew just where to go to spend his new found money. He had it straight for an acquaintances apartment. Now, by all accounts, Canada's minor five crack get high. We're able to get him a gun? No. He says that he calls Jeffrey Locker. I told him that it don't look

good right now. Well, let's meet up and I'll tell you face to face. I don't want to say it over the phone. I wasn't all the way sure of his intentions. I wanted to see you, I don't know. See if I can for nego a few more dollars without. But I'll have him just turn bad. On the way out of the apartment, he says he ripped section of phone wire from the wall. I was a little paranoid at the time and I'm a couple of people saw me use that.

Use the phone. I was drinking heavily. I might have owned a few drugs. So I wasn't thinking clearly. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It seemed like a perfect idea to take the phone

wire. Looks like I wasn't here. Minor got back into Locker's car. At first, I was just trying to

explain to him about not being successful in getting what he wanted. And then, hold on. He took

“a phone call. Oh, my people's calling me. Who's calling? I think it was his wife. He's like,”

I got a flat tire. His painting care of some guys. We're helping them. I found it kind of amusing that he was lying. Minor was starting to worry about what Jeffrey Locker would ask him to do

I said, well, he just go and jump in the river. It's right there. And what did he say?

I needed to look like a robbery. And he explained to me why. Minor says Locker wanted his family to collect millions of dollars from his life insurance policies. If he committed suicide, there would be no payout. So, it had to look like he was murder. Locker apparently believed. He was worth more dead than alive. He started explaining to me that he got caught up at some Ponzi's King. They all caused a lawsuit against him and he was losing everything. And to him,

that was like deaf in itself. Losing his money was like deaf losing everything. You know,

not being able to support his family the way that they were accustomed to. To him, it was like,

this is it. If you don't do it, somebody else will. If you know, like this is getting done.

“That's what he said. This is getting done. Did he seem scared? No, sad.”

Maybe a little sad. Maybe a little sad. Because I knew, you know, that he loved his children. You know what I mean? He kind of reached me in that car. Just talking to me. You know, just like, you know, I'm just, I'm just like you. Just, I'm a different side of the training tracks. Did he show you picture of his kids? Yep. What'd you think? I don't know. He wasn't talking about the lady at that point.

Miner says Locker promised. If he helped him, he could clean out his bank account. So, Locker gave Miner his ATM card and the pin. I still know the number. What was the number? 1322. But according to Miner, killing Jeffrey Locker was not easy. He couldn't find a gun, so he tried to strangle Locker with that phone wire. But that didn't work either. The wire pump. The wire broke in. So, Miner says Locker told him to take a knife out of the glove

compartment and hold it against the steering wheel. He says that Jeffrey Locker then lunges forward four times into the knife. Then Jeffrey Locker tells him, move it to the right side where my heart is. So, then, kind of, Miner said that he moves the knife to the right side and he lunges forward into the knife two more times. So, Miner. So, he's lunging forward, this is and he

“will knife. This is Kenneth Miner's story. Was he still alive when you left the car?”

Yeah, very much so. Still breathing? Yeah, normally you're. It was gargled, but he also turned it, looked at me. He just had a smirk on his face. I think I said something to him. You got what you wanted? You happy now? There was a unanimous call over this story. New York Post reporter Laura Italiano says Miner seemed like just another killer concocting an impossible story to beat the rap. His tail was good for a laugh, but not much else. And after he told it, Miner was charged with murder.

Defendants will say the darned things when they're trying to save their necks. The guy from Long Island comes into the ghetto shopping for his own murderer. Who's ever heard of this? And the police who thought they'd heard everything were about to learn? That's exactly what Jeffrey Locker was doing. He had tried this before. He did. So, as crazy as this story is sounding to you, it didn't get

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to stab him to death. My first reaction was, this is as likely as they're being a new life form

“on Earth. You know, I thought no way this could be true. That was before he heard about this man,”

Melvin Fleming and his meeting with Jeffrey Locker. I met him at 128 Street and Pock Avenue in Holland. It was just days before Locker's death. It was Pock's right here. Melvin Fleming asked Locker for a quarter. He gave me five bucks. And I said, hey, thank you. If there's anything that I could ever do for you, just let me know. Of course, he says Locker did have something in mind. He said, I've been trying to find some gang members to whack me. I looked at him and I said,

knock you off. He said, yeah, you know, make me dead. That's it. Wow, that's a big request. You know, in my pale out of money, but doing a job like that and little kids is double. Melvin says he knew a money-making opportunity when he saw one. I said, sure, I can help you. And Fleming says, that's when Jeffrey Locker spelled out that same bizarre plan. Miner says he talked to him about arranging his own murder, so the Locker family could collect

millions of dollars in life insurance. He definitely said to me, it has to look back where. Probably. And my body kept to be that poor. It can be found.

“Do you remember what you thought? I thought that it well. I got a guy here and I could take”

to the bank. For two nights Fleming and Locker drove around Harlem. Fleming says Locker was looking for the best place to get killed. Melvin kind of thought the entire thing was fairly humorous. He knew that he wasn't going to do this. It was Locker's bad luck. He hoped Melvin Fleming was a killer, but he was really just a con man. Con man of low-round killing people, they con people. And Fleming says he coned Locker out of

almost $7,000 cash that Locker was carrying around. He really believed me that I was going to do this plan. He says Locker thought this Harlem bus terminal would be a good spot to die. How many ideas did he have for ways that you could kill him? Stabbing him, shooting him, and hitting him over the head here. But by now Melvin just wanted to get out of there with his money. So he told Locker to drive to the nearby housing projects instead.

Where Melvin promised he would get a gun and kill Locker. I asked him just to sit there in a car, wrote a window down, but to see Betta on.

We write back. Of course, he never came back. He says he left a desperate Jeffrey Locker to find

someone else to kill him. And within hours, Locker found Kenneth Miner. Do you believe Jeffrey Locker wanted to die that night? 100%. Do you believe he wanted Kenneth Miner to kill him that night? Absolutely. My first words that I myself was don't believe it. Don't believe it. Locker's friend Steve Denonzio says he was certain Locker would never plan his own murder. That is not something that this person that I knew for 27 years, whatever, too.

But the evidence was starting to pile up. The detectives and the prosecutors began to look into Locker's financial history. Murray Weiss is a seasoned police reporter and a CBS news consultant. He says investigators discovered Locker had a lot of financial problems. Mr. Locker wasn't dead. He had a very heavy mortgage on his house. On top of that, he was being sued for more than $300,000, resulting from an investment that turned out to be a

Ponzi scheme. I would say that Mr. Locker was backed into a very bad financial corner.

“And I think he saw that there was only one way out for him. That may be why in the months before”

he died, Jeffrey Locker purchased a staggering amount of life insurance. They were $12 million,

little more than $12 million. That actually $12 million. I think $150,000. $12 million. $12 million. If you take out an insurance policy, you can't just jump off a bridge to the next day and expect to collect. He had to make this look like a murder. Correct. And Kenneth Miner says it was his strong impression that the Locker family knew all about it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Why do you think that?

Because the way he told me he said buy everybody. I mean, he didn't just say buy. I'm going to work. I'll be back later. He said goodbye isn't he cost all his teeth and died at all his eyes.

One way or another, he was going to take one for the team.

Melvin Fleming says he heard the same thing. He said his family was familiar with it, and they were okay with it, and he has to do this. And police found evidence that Dan Gottlin says shows Locker's family may well have known what he was planning. He'll show the jury a text message from Locker's teenage son written just days before Locker's death. It talks about a video that the father is apparently making. He's telling his father to include a

“special message for his 13-year-old sister and says, "Remember you won't be there to give her”

away. It's an important milestone for a woman getting married to also have her father." So, if you could also add in hers, that you will be there in spirit, giving her away.

Which would lead one to believe that the son must have known that the father was planning something.

No one from the Locker family would speak to us for this broadcast, and no one from the Locker family has ever been charged with any wrongdoing in this case. The Locker family's friends stayed Danuncio quickly and strongly defended them. Is it possible that if there were financial problems that Lois and the kids might in a weird way sort of welcome a decision to stage a killing?

No, Lois is the kind of person say, "Okay, we have money problems if we have to go bankrupt. But you don't kill yourself. You don't do that." No, completely impossible. But Dan Gottland will base minors defense on this argument. Locker got what he wanted. His own

carefully orchestrated death. It was really suicide. And minor was just a pawn in Locker's end game.

He was taken advantage of. He was taken advantage of by Mr. Locker.

“The timing is right, Carp A.D. and you must see his moment.”

He was a motivational speaker. What happens to the opportunity? Be motivated, my client with enough to convince him to do this for him. You've got to be one heck of a motivational speaker. If you pick on the right person, you do it. Gottland will argue some people pick poison but Locker picked a person.

Kenneth Miner to help commit suicide and solve all his problems. I knew it wasn't murder. I knew it wasn't murder. I just happened to be the building he jumped off. It wasn't murder. It's the defendant who brought us to this point. Kenneth Miner's trial for killing

Jeffrey Locker is now underway. He's the one who chose to kill somebody. And even though almost nobody in the courtroom doubts that Locker wanted to die, he's the one who said yes instead of no. Prosecutor argues Miner is still a murderer. The right thing to do would have been from Mr. Meyer to tell Locker

that I will not be part of your scheme. The right thing to do would have been walk away. Prosecutor Peter Castle Arrow says Miner could have done what Melvin Fleming did. Melvin heard the same speech. Melvin heard it was offered the same money but Melvin didn't kill anybody. Miner says this is a case of assisted suicide but Castle Arrow says there's one reason

Miner killed Locker and it's cash not compassion. Mr. Miner is going to ATMs within half hour of that death. That doesn't look so good. That begins to look more like murder for higher than assisted suicide. In a sense it was a murder for high but it was also assisted suicide. Defense attorney Dan Gottland will argue that his client Kenneth Miner spent hours with Locker.

Enough time to establish a weird kind of relationship. It might sound a little morbid but I was kind of privileged to be there for like you know this is like your last you know nobody else will ever see you again. Nobody and you chose me. And so Miner says he held the knife against the steering wheel and just watched as Locker

“threw himself on it again and again and again. Is that possible?”

I don't believe so. Detective Robert Stewart. What do you think happened? He stabbed him. No question. I believe that when my client said the sounds true Flynn and it was very possibly was truthful and how many times did Locker lunge onto the knife? I think they were six times to an area right near the heart. Look at him. The horn doesn't go off. Good question.

helps prove his case. Gottland sent his investigator Michael Barry to examine Locker's car and the horn did not work. I believe Locker just connected it and pulled the fuse.

“That's how well-prepared Jeffrey Locker was to get someone to assist him in his suicide.”

All of which the defense says means the police got the right man but the wrong crime. This was not murder. You did offer to plead to a lesser child. Correct. From day one to manslaughter. It's a big difference. Manslaughter means a maximum 15 years in jail murder could mean life.

I've always said I will pay for what I did. I will pay for the plot that I plead.

Miner says he helped Locker die but he did not kill him. I never saw him as a victim but he's dead. You know that was a that was a self-appointed choice and that is what Dan Gottland wants the jury to know about Jeffrey Locker. He killed himself. That's what he wanted to do. Except the medical examiner says it was homicide. All the wounds were in a tight six-inch cluster in Locker's chest. Crime reporter Murray Weiss. The medical examiner claimed that the wounds

appeared to be coming from one side downward in that somebody sitting in the passenger seats would be reaching over and plunging a knife in. Slide over. Oh nine. That's 261. But Gottland has his own medical expert. I see nothing here that is physically, forensically, scientifically, inconsistent with Mr. Miner's presentation. Cyril Wacht is Dan Gottland's star witness. He is a controversial

forensic scientist most famous for insisting there was a second gunman at the JFK assassination.

He thinks Locker had minor tie his hands so he wouldn't have second thoughts once he began killing himself. We're going to show with this collapsible knife of course how this could have been accomplished. We're agreed to show us how easy it would have been for Locker to throw himself on a knife. So you see all of that is accomplished in a matter of a few seconds. But if Locker was not in control of his own death and minor attack him from the passenger seat, Weiss says Locker would have had

different wounds on his body. Joe pretend that you're going to be stabbing me now. You want to stab me okay. You're trying to get away. Trying to get away. See? It'll heck you a lot more than then a nice six inch circumferential circle that we have on the chest. I still to this day have trouble imagining somebody actually doing that to themselves, hurling themselves onto a knife.

Well and that's because you have never seen what people can do when they make up their minds

“to commit suicide. But when people I think can't get around in this case is the simple fact”

that stabbing yourself that many times would to use a technical forensic term hurt like heck. Yes, it hurts. It hurts when you go through the skin when it penetrates the heart and the lungs there's not much pain. I respectfully disagree it has to be more painful than that. And it has to be messier too, says Castle Arrow, who asked why the steering wheel and the dashboard were so clean. How can you have these gaping wounds and not leave a single drop of blood if you're

throwing yourself forward against and again and again. He's sharp got saturated with blood. You mean not one drop of it is going to come off and go forward? Wect has an answer. He says locker did not hit major blood vessels. The shirt got soaked with blood afterwards when his wounds continued to bleed. What's really a battle of experts? Who you choose to

“believe? And that's what the jurors are about to decide. Who to believe and what to believe”

about Kenneth Miner and his intentions on that night in that car? It's the defendant angel of mercy. Now he's the grim reaper. You think he's a contract killer or somebody who was dupped and used by another human being?

Don't dignify this by calling you assisted suicide. Call it what it is.

Murder, plain and simple. Why did he do it? He did it to earn his fee. Prosecutor Peter Castle Arrow in his closing argument to the jury says, "Despite what defense attorney Dan Gottlin argues. Kenneth Miner, murder Jeffrey Locker." Watching the prosecutions, the defense. There's this veneer of truth about everything. For at least one juror, Kurt Markle, it's not so simple.

Locker really comes across in a rather unsavory way. That made it easier for the jury to have some

“sympathy for Miner. He was picked out to do this thing. He didn't seek it out. That's what made”

it so difficult. The sympathy for the man was enormous. Why would you do this thing? What could possibly make you want to do this thing? It's not just about greed. These two men in this death spiral. Down or downward. It was unsettling to all of us. The verdict is in in a bizarre Manhattan murder case. For such a difficult case, it's surprising that the jury was out just four hours. The verdict is filthy. The jurors might have sympathized with Miner,

but they did not believe him, because Markle says, "Miner is no Dr. Kavorkiam, and this was no assisted suicide." Locker is not physically impaired. His whole reasoning is

“financial. The jury decided Miner did a lot more than just hold the knife against the steering wheel.”

He stabbed Locker, and that makes it murder. But Gottlin says there's plenty of room for an appeal because according to law, it shouldn't matter what Miner did because Locker wanted Miner to kill him. So in your view, if Locker is intent on committing suicide, Miner can do anything. To shoot him, hang him, stab him from under a bus. He can do all of those things according to the statute. If he causes or aids the other person in committing suicide, the appeal will take

a while. But now, Kenneth Miner is about to learn his sentence. "Mr. Miner, do you wish to address

the court before your sentence?" This is the first time he's spoken on the record in this courtroom.

Only two people in the world know what happened that night. And one of whom is not here no more. But he did not want this for me. For me to lose the rest of my life. And then Mr. Locker is where he wanted to be. Grime reporter Marie Weiss. I actually thought there was probably some truth to that. Jeffrey Locker was aware he wanted to be, and Miner was sitting there holding the bag.

But in the end, the judge sees it differently. He sentenced to a term of 20 years to life. I got 20 years to think about this every day. To this day, Kenneth Miner says he's still not sure why he did what he did. For a man he didn't even know. Two strangers go bump in a night.

“They just have a connection. Why did not just hit him over the head and take it money and leave?”

I don't know what sense of loyalty that I had to a total stranger in his lack of requirement tape. That just keeps playing over and over my head. Locker's widow and his three children were

never in the courtroom to hear anything Miner said. They didn't attend any of the trial

and have never spoken publicly about the outcome. But their friend Steve Denonzio is wrestling with his own questions. How could Locker, who seemed to have every reason to live, decide it was time to die. Do you believe in your heart that this was murder or was it suicide? I don't know. I'm still, you know, the left side of my brain says it was suicide. The rates of my brain says it was murder and I don't think I'll ever know. And I want to believe in my

friend so I'm choosing to believe that it was murder. Will we ever know the truth? I don't think so.

12 years. In 2019, Miner was released from prison.