Abduction Case Parolee Faces Charges in 6 Women’s Slayings

A parolee was charged Tuesday in the killings of six women, and police said he told them where to find three of the victims’ bodies.

Nathaniel White, 32, of Middletown, was paroled in April after serving a year in prison for unlawful imprisonment in the knifepoint abduction of a woman. Five of the six victims he is charged with killing died after his parole.

White also was being investigated in other slayings, state police Maj. James D. O’Donnell said. “When you have someone who confessed--admitted--to six homicides, you’re going to look at other unsolved cases,” O’Donnell said.

The women all appeared to have died from stab wounds, but autopsy reports on the three latest victims were incomplete. Some of the victims were raped. Poughkeepsie police received an anonymous tip linking White with the death of Adriane M. Hunter, 27, of Middletown.

Under questioning, inconsistencies in his story led authorities to suspect him in the other cases, O’Donnell said.

White served two years in state prison for robbing three convenience stores and was paroled in November, 1989, state parole spokesman David Ernst said.

He was arrested again on April 17, 1991, for kidnaping and assault in the knifepoint abduction of a woman, O’Donnell said. Under a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment and was sentenced to nine months in prison, Ernst said. Parole officials added three months to his sentence for a parole violation.