Murder of Menachem Stark
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Menachem ("Max") Stark (July 15, 1974 – January 3, 2014) was an American real estate developer whose badly burned body was found smoldering in a dumpster outside a gas station in Great Neck, New York.
Menachem Stark | |
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Born | July 15, 1974 |
Died | January 3, 2014 (aged 39) |
Occupation(s) | Real estate developer, businessman, philanthropist |
Children | 7 |
The cousins Erskine Felix, Kendel Felix, Kendall Felix, and Irvine Henry were arrested and eventually convicted of the crime. Erskine worked for Stark, a prominent member of the Satmar Hasidic community in the Williamsburg neighborhood of New York City. Claiming that Stark owed him money, Erskine recruited his cousins to help in a botched robbery of Stark that instead turned into a homicide.
The New York Post featured a front page image of Stark with the headline, "Who Didn't Want Him Dead?". The headline, referring to the notion that Stark had acquired a number of enemies during the course of his real estate dealings, sparked condemnation from local officials for showing insensitivity towards the victim, and for seeming to condone crime.