Former WABC Radio newsman George Weber was found murdered in his Brooklyn apartment yesterday after failing to report to work for two days, sources told The Post.
Weber, who would have turned 48 today, was discovered half-naked in his bed shortly before 10 a.m. inside his apartment with his throat slashed and more than a dozen stab wounds to his neck.
His hands and feet were bound with duct tape, sources said.
There were no signs of forced entry at Weber’s apartment on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens, sources said. The bathtub spigot was running and the place had been ransacked, said one source, who described the home as “a bloody mess.”
Detectives were investigating the possibility he knew his attacker.
His bosses, concerned that he hadn’t shown up for work, had called cops.
Police sources said they believed that Weber, who began at WABC in 1996 and was a regular on the “Curtis & Kuby” program, was killed on Friday night.
“George lived his whole life as a high-profile newsman, and to the best of my knowledge never made a single enemy,” said lawyer Ron Kuby, one of the cancelled show’s co-hosts.
Curtis Sliwa said Weber used his beloved Dachshund, Noodles, as an icebreaker to score interviews.
“The guy was fearless,” said Sliwa. “Him and Noodles would pursue a story no matter where it was.”
Weber contributed to a show Mayor Bloomberg did on WABC. “George was the kind of professional who could give you the news and his views without one getting in the way of the other,” Bloomberg said.
Weber was let go last year, but landed at ABC News, which provides national network stories to stations across the country, including WABC.
“He always said he had the best job in the best city in the world,” said Mike Caragliano, who worked with him in the studio.
Additional reporting by Ted Phillips