A Mount Vernon man with a decades-long history of violence against women has admitted to three murders — one Tuesday and two nearly 20 years ago, authorities said yesterday.
Lucius Crawford, 60, appeared in Mount Vernon City Court, wearing a hospital gown and a pair of jeans. He was ordered held without bail on a second-degree murder charge for allegedly killing a woman cops found stabbed to death in his home.
Crawford is to be charged separately with killing two women in 1993, one in The Bronx and the other in Yonkers.
NYPD and Yonkers detectives found Crawford’s latest victim when they went to his basement apartment Tuesday afternoon to ask about the cold-case slayings in The Bronx and Yonkers.
They found the 41-year-old woman — whose name has not been released — dead from nine stab wounds to her chest, police said.
Police said Tuesday’s slaying was the latest in Crawford’s 40-year history of violence against women, which began in 1973 with a series of stabbings in his hometown of Charleston, SC.
He was paroled from Sing Sing prison in 2008 after serving 13 years for the attempted murder of another Yonkers woman.
Because of Crawford’s violent history, NYPD detectives alerted their counterparts in Suffolk County, who are investigating the slayings of 10 people found at Gilgo Beach.
But Suffolk detectives doubt Crawford is a suspect. “This guy’s m.o. doesn’t fit with what we have here at all,” said a Suffolk law-enforcement source.