NY NY - Crystal Glasper, 18, Rotterdam, 26 Dec 2004

Cypros said:

Thanks for posting the reconstruction. They had the eyes right and her coloring, but the nose was wrong and the lips way off. I think the mouth was shown open because they wanted to show her teeth.

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The two named suspects in a 6-year-old unsolved Rotterdam killing are seeking reduced sentences on related drug convictions, officials said Monday.

Shawn DeLayo, 31, and Dwayne Wilson, 50, are each serving lengthy drug-related sentences, DeLayo 13 to 24 years and Wilson 14 to 28 years...

However, both Wilson and DeLayo were officially named last year as the only suspects in the death of Crystal Glasper, whose body was found stuffed under a Rotterdam porch in 2004.

Prosecutors are using the suspects’ connection to Glasper to bolster their arguments that DeLayo and Wilson’s sentences should not be reduced.

Prosecutors have said in court papers that DeLayo led them to the girl’s identity and the location of her killing in Schenectady. He also blamed the killing on Wilson alone. The investigation, however, suggested DeLayo had a role.

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A drug dealer who the district attorney's office said reneged on a promise to cooperate in the investigation into the 2004 murder of a teenage runaway has dropped his request for resentencing on an unrelated drug offense because the prosecutor could have questioned him on the unsolved homicide, according to attorneys involved in the case...

investigators determined that Shawn Delayo's account of Crystal Glasper's killing didn't add up, even though he gave a lengthy statement to investigators implicating his buddy DeWayne Wilson as the triggerman. The pair were dealing narcotics together and it appears that Glasper, a runaway from Long Island, worked as drug mule before she was shot in the head in Schenectady.

Her body was rolled in garbage bags, taken to Rotterdam and discarded beneath the porch of a Cedarlawn Avenue home, where police made the grisly discovery on Dec. 26, 2004.

Glasper, who was from Great Neck on Long Island, wasn't identified until November 2005, during a sentencing hearing for Wilson, 46. Wilson had been convicted of two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, stemming from a drug raid at the Cedarlawn address. Wilson, originally from the Bronx, drew the maximum sentence, 28 years in state prison. At the time, Wilson was identified as a prime murder suspect.

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The decision to drop the petition also came, prosecutor Gerald Dwyer said, after Dwyer indicated that if Delayo took the stand at a hearing on the issue, Dwyer would ask him about the unsolved killing. Delayo would have either had to answer the questions, or plead the Fifth Amendment. If he pleaded the Fifth, none of this testimony would have been admissible, Dwyer said...

DeLayo had once looked at a sentence of only two to six years after cutting a deal with prosecutors to testify against another man in Glasper’s killing. But prosecutors and police discovered that Delayo was only partially truthful.

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The town’s last homicide came when the body of Crystal Glasper was found under the back porch of a Cedarlawn Avenue drug house in December 2004. No one has ever been charged in Glasper’s death, though authorities have named two suspects, both of whom are serving long drug sentences.

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