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A suspect is being sought by cops for having sex with a dead body on a Manhattan subway train — after rifling through the dead man’s pockets and robbing him, the Daily News has learned.
An MTA train conductor found the dead man, believed to be homeless and in his 40s, leaning forward in his seat on an idling R train at the Whitehall St. subway station in lower Manhattan about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, transit sources said.
When cops investigating the case reviewed subway car surveillance footage, it showed a man, believed to be in his 50s, having oral and anal sex with the corpse, a police source said. That man is now wanted for sexual misconduct.
The victim got on the R train about 8 p.m., sources said. He lit up a cigarette, filling the train car with smoke, surveillance footage recovered by investigators shows.
The few people on the train moved to another car. The smoking man went on to quietly die.
About 11 p.m., the suspect stepped onto the train car, realized the victim was dead and went through his pockets, taking whatever the victim had on him, police sources said. He then has sex with the corpse before leaving the train at the Whitehall St. station at 12:10 a.m. — about 20 minutes before the MTA conductor finds the dead victim.
It’s not believed the two men knew each other, the source said.
Transit sources told The News the grim incident came to light when investigators checked the train car’s surveillance footage after the dead man was discovered. The defilement was captured by the train’s onboard video cameras, which police are using to try to identify the suspect.
The suspect is believed to be about 5-foot-9 and 195 pounds with black hair, brown eyes, and a goatee.
Cops thought they had identified a specific suspect for the sex abuse but are now unsure that is the right person, a police source said.
Every train car in the subway has been equipped with a surveillance system since December 2024, after a push from Albany to speed up installation of cameras systemwide.
Police are working to identify the dead man and the city Medical Examiner has scheduled an autopsy.
There were no apparent signs of trauma and it was not immediately clear how the man on the train died or how long the corpse was riding the rails before the body was discovered, cops said. No drugs or drug paraphernalia was found in the train car, cops said.
A suspect is being sought by cops for having sex with a dead body on a Manhattan subway train — after rifling through the dead man’s pockets and robbing him, the Daily News has learned.
An MTA train conductor found the dead man, believed to be homeless and in his 40s, leaning forward in his seat on an idling R train at the Whitehall St. subway station in lower Manhattan about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, transit sources said.
When cops investigating the case reviewed subway car surveillance footage, it showed a man, believed to be in his 50s, having oral and anal sex with the corpse, a police source said. That man is now wanted for sexual misconduct.
The victim got on the R train about 8 p.m., sources said. He lit up a cigarette, filling the train car with smoke, surveillance footage recovered by investigators shows.
The few people on the train moved to another car. The smoking man went on to quietly die.
About 11 p.m., the suspect stepped onto the train car, realized the victim was dead and went through his pockets, taking whatever the victim had on him, police sources said. He then has sex with the corpse before leaving the train at the Whitehall St. station at 12:10 a.m. — about 20 minutes before the MTA conductor finds the dead victim.
It’s not believed the two men knew each other, the source said.
Transit sources told The News the grim incident came to light when investigators checked the train car’s surveillance footage after the dead man was discovered. The defilement was captured by the train’s onboard video cameras, which police are using to try to identify the suspect.
The suspect is believed to be about 5-foot-9 and 195 pounds with black hair, brown eyes, and a goatee.
Cops thought they had identified a specific suspect for the sex abuse but are now unsure that is the right person, a police source said.
Every train car in the subway has been equipped with a surveillance system since December 2024, after a push from Albany to speed up installation of cameras systemwide.
Police are working to identify the dead man and the city Medical Examiner has scheduled an autopsy.
There were no apparent signs of trauma and it was not immediately clear how the man on the train died or how long the corpse was riding the rails before the body was discovered, cops said. No drugs or drug paraphernalia was found in the train car, cops said.
