Fausto Gonzalez, 37, went on trial for the bloody three-year reign of terror, which started with killings of fellow crooks and moved on to heartless, near-random slays. "The defendant [is] a cold-blooded, heartless, thrill-seeking professional killer," said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney John Veiga.
Gonzalez is already serving a life sentence in federal prison for killing a rival biker gang member in Hartford. The Manhattan murders took place from 1996 to 1999 and went unsolved for a decade because Gonzalez allegedly wore a tinted motorcycle helmet while carrying them out. Prosecutors lined up four biker gang pals of Gonzalez's to testify against him in the killing spree, and they all will receive lesser sentences for cooperating. "No one can tell you who killed these people," said Gonzalez's lawyer, Saul Schwartzberg. One of the victims was longtime pharmacist Richard Fedor, who was killed in a robbery as he walked to the bank from his East Harlem drugstore. Another was restaurateur Halil Korkmaz, who was waiting at a red light in the East Village when he was shot for his motorcycle.
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