In a 2,000-word story headlined "The Names Stay Linked: 'Bagel King' and Tankleff," the Sunday New York Times looks at Jerry Steuerman and his relationship with other key players connected to the Tankleff case.
The article describes the half-million dollars Steuerman owed Seymour Tankleff, the pressure Seymour was putting on Steuerman to pay it back, and the threat Marty and his relatives have always claimed Steuerman posed to Seymour and Arlene Tankleff the summer before the murders:
"In the months before his death, Mr. Tankleff had demanded an immediate cash payment of $50,000, and Mr. Steuerman resisted, according to members of the Tankleff family. Two weeks before the attacks, Arlene Tankleff told her sister, Marcella Alt Falbee, that she was afraid of Mr. Steuerman, according to court records. Ms. Falbee quoted her sister as saying that when Seymour Tankleff had tried to collect money, Mr. Steuerman angrily grabbed him, pulled him across a counter and said, 'I’ll cut your throat.'"
After recounting how Detective James McCready "extracted" an unsigned, retracted confession from Marty, the Times cites the evidence that has come out that McCready knew Steuerman prior to the murders, despite McCready's denials at trial.
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