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- Newark_1978_murders abstract "The Newark boys murders, also known as the case of "The Clinton Avenue Five", is the case of five young men who disappeared on August 20, 1978 in Newark, New Jersey. The five teenagers, Melvin Pittman and Ernest Taylor, both 17, and Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell, all 16, came to be known as "The Clinton Avenue Five", named after the street where they were last seen near a park where they had played basketball. The case became a cold case and was labelled a disappearance.Detectives looked as far as Chicago after the discovery of 33 young men in the basement of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Atlanta, where another serial killer murdered nearly 30 children in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and Jonestown, where more than 900 people died in a mass suicide in 1978.Approximately 30 years after the disappearances, Philander Hampton confessed to aiding in the murder of the five men with his cousin, Lee Anthony Evans. Hampton claimed that his cousin was upset at the young men for stealing marijuana from his home, so he picked up two of the men and brought them to an abandoned apartment where Hampton stood guard over them. He claimed that his cousin then went and retrieved the other three teenagers, before locking them in a closet, and setting the building on fire. Hampton pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to ten years in prison.A relative of one of the victims claims that Evans also confessed to him his involvement in the crime. Police searched the grounds where the burned building had stood but were unable to recover any remains.However, on November 2, 2011, during the trial, Rodgers Taylor, the brother of victim Ernest Taylor, and key witness in the case, falsely accused a court watcher of going to his home "last night" and taunting him about the case. The court watcher, Gary Ewing was brought before the court at a side bar before being interrogated by law enforcement and ordered by Judge Patricia Costello not to attend the trial anymore because of alleged "witness tampering." Judge Costello's order was later reversed four day's later by the appellate court on "due process grounds." Once Gary Ewing returned to the court room as a court watcher, Rodgers Taylor recanted his story and there were no further hearings concerning Rodgers Taylor's accusations as Gary Ewing was allowed to once again attend the trial.Evans was tried for the murders but was acquitted.A third man also considered a suspect in the case died of natural causes in 2008. All of the three suspects are cousins.".
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- Newark_1978_murders comment "The Newark boys murders, also known as the case of "The Clinton Avenue Five", is the case of five young men who disappeared on August 20, 1978 in Newark, New Jersey. The five teenagers, Melvin Pittman and Ernest Taylor, both 17, and Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell, all 16, came to be known as "The Clinton Avenue Five", named after the street where they were last seen near a park where they had played basketball.".
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