True Crime Recaps 2023 - Marty Tankleff’s blog -
September 7th 1988: When 17-year-old Marty Tankleff woke up one morning he had no idea his world was about to be turned upside down. As soon as he stepped out of his room however it was glaringly obvious something was horribly wrong. Both his parents had been brutally attacked during the night. And suddenly it seemed like everyone in town thought he did it. True Crime Recaps: He Woke Up to Find His Parents Dead! Youtube 11.24, 2023
His father who miraculously awoke from his coma and fingered Mary as the killer … That single lie was enough to make Marty believe he must have done it. ibid.
No blood evidence … The kid didn’t have a scratch on him. ibid.
After 13 weeks of trial and 8 days of deliberation the jury returned its verdict: Guilty. ibid.
Jerry the Bagel King [Steuerman] was falling behind on his payments and Seymour was tired of it … Through his underworld connections Jerry hired Joey ‘Guns’ [Creedon] and Peter Kent to kill the Tankleffs … Joey and Peter snuck in through a window. ibid.
Martin’s conviction was overturned in December 2007 after a unanimous vote of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn … Today he practises law in New York State. ibid.
Seymour Tankleff’s business partner in Strathmore Bagels. Owed Seymour half a million dollars and was the last to leave a poker game at the Tankleff residence in the early morning of the murders. One week after the attacks, as Seymour lay in a coma, withdrew $15,000 from a joint bank account he shared with Seymour, named his girlfriend the beneficiary of his life insurance policy, faked his own death, shaved his beard, changed his hair weave, assumed an alias and fled to California, where he stayed for a time at the Big Sur resort. Alleged to have attempted to hire Joseph Creedon to cut out Marty Tankleff’s tongue. Weeks before the murders, is alleged to have pulled Seymour Tankleff across a counter and threatened to cut his throat. While he has always publicly denied involvement in the Tankleff murders, is said to have recently told people privately, ‘So what, I slit their throats, what are they going to do, give me 50 years at my age?’ The year following the Tankleff murders, a cabinet marker overheard Steuerman threaten a man, screaming that he’d already killed two people and it wouldn’t matter if he killed another. In early 80s, son Todd Steuerman pled guilty to selling cocaine out of the bagel store, an operation in which, according to a confidential defense witness, cops were paid off not to interfere. Contradicting Detective James McCready’s testimony at Marty’s original trial that he never knew Jerry Steuerman, at court hearings in 2004 a baking supplies wholesaler testified he was 100% certain he repeatedly saw Detective McCready with Jerry in the bagel store in the late 70s and early 80s, well before the Tankleff murders. In the late 80s, Jerry Steuerman was represented by the current or former law partner of current Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spoda. For selling cocaine out of the bagel store, son Todd Steuerman was represented by Spota’s law firm. To this day, Suffolk County law enforcement has never considered Jerry Steuerman a suspect in the Tankleff murders. Marty Tanfleff’s blog, Contentsquad online July 15th 2005