When someone walks into a police station, cops aren’t used to hearing things like “I did something bad.” He added that he’d been “having issues” with his tenants. Queens landlord David Daniel had enough of deadbeats flopping in his basement and his live-in alleged girlfriend wasn’t as much of a keeper as she imagined herself to be. The 54-year-old stabbed all three of them to death early Tuesday morning. He then cleaned himself up enough to be presentable and walked into the 113th Precinct to surrender.
Police stunned by confession
Bits and pieces of a bizarre tale police in Queens, New York, heard this morning have been trickling in all day. David Daniel thoughtfully left the back door to the crime scene open for detectives. Officers working out of the 113th Precinct were “left stunned.”
On November 14, the cold-blooded killer “calmly strode into the station house and announced that he had murdered his tenants.”
According to Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, “He says that he killed three people. He gave the location and [says] that he left the back door open.”
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The thing which has police so flabbergasted is that he didn’t make them drag it all out of him under interrogation after they stumbled on the bodies in a more routine way. It completely disrupted their entire routine.
Police were amazed at Daniel’s “demeanor.” Not only was he totally calm, he “matter-of-factly” stepped them through all “the horrendous details” of what he had just done.
Cops quickly rushed over to “122-39 Milburn Street in St. Albans at 7:16 a.m. to find the renters dead of multiple stab wounds.” The males of undetermined age and relationship were discovered in the basement. Daniel had lived “on the top floor with his unnamed girlfriend.” Cops relate she also was “murdered with a knife in the bedroom.”
Problems with his girlfriend
Chief Kenny reports that “he indicates that he had problems with his girlfriend but the two males in the basement had not been paying their rent.” Just try and evict a deadbeat renter in New York.
The police didn’t manage to find the murder weapon yet but he probably put it in the dishwasher. They have search warrants to go looking. Daniel confessed to everything else so he probably told them exactly where to look for it.
The timeline hasn’t been confirmed but police are working on the assumption that he committed the crimes Tuesday morning. They aren’t sure how long the victims had been dead before Daniel showed up at their doorstep.
‘DID SOMETHING BAD’: Landlord suspected of stabbing 3 tenants to death in Queens home https://t.co/uRJaqlIqDQ pic.twitter.com/C74XQgSGJC
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He didn’t look like he just came from a massacre, though. “Daniel apparently wasn’t disheveled and did not show any evidence of the crime when he appeared at the 113th Precinct.”
“He came in as calm as we thought he could be when he engaged the officers,” declares Assistant Chief Kevin Williams. “He wanted to tell the story.”
They have been questioning him relentlessly all day and finally managed to get him charged with “three counts of murder.” They were so shaken up by a defendant who actually cooperates and tells the truth the police didn’t believe him.
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