Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Postal Worker Held in Prostitute Slayings
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Prostitutes led police to the Hicksville, N.Y., home of a postal worker who later confessed to beating five women to death, dismembering them and dumping their body parts in garbage bins, authorities said. Robert Shulman, 42, was charged with two counts of murder in the slayings of two prostitutes whose bodies were found on Long Island. Authorities said Shulman also confessed to killing three other prostitutes whose bodies were found in Brooklyn and Yonkers.
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