DNA found him to be the one true attacker in the Central Park Jogger case.
Ever since the May 31 release of Netflix's wildly popular miniseries When They See Us, the real-life story of the so-called"Central Park Five" has shot back into the spotlight. But the wrongful conviction of these five black and Latino men , as seen in the series, begs the question: Who really committed the horrendous crime in the Central Park Jogger case?
Growing upAccording to his 1991 interview with psychologist N. G. Berrill, Matias Reyes was born in Puerto Rico in 1971. He claimed he moved to New York with his mother before they ultimately went their separate ways when Matias was 15 or 16 years old. He also claimed he suffered sexual abuse as a young boy, before going on to commit violent crimes himself.
In April 1989, just before the widely publicized Central Park Jogger attack, Matias began beating and raping another 26-year-old woman in the northern part of Central Park. Mid-assault, he was spotted by passersby and fled from the scene. As is shown in the Netflix's Ava Duvernay-directed miniseries When They See Us, five young black and Latino boys named Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise were ultimately accused of committing the violent crime against the Central Park Jogger. The first four boys were sentenced to five to 10 years in a youth correctional facility, and the fifth boy was five to 15 years in an adult prison.
It didn't take long for police to connect Matias to a series of other crimes in the area, and under interrogation, he confessed to one murder, five rapes, and two attempted rapes. He went to trial not long thereafter, where he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 33 years to life in prison. For whatever reason, after this second chance meeting, Matias felt moved to go to the police with the truth and in 2002, he admitted to being the lone attacker in the Central Park Jogger case. In a confession tape obtained by the New York Daily News, Matias put it this way:"I know it's hard for people to understand, after 12 years why a person would actually come forward to take responsibility for a crime. I've asked myself that question.
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