Nicolas Wiley

From A Story Dated 6-3-04

The investigation continues into the murders allegedly committed by Nicholas Wiley.

Syracuse police arrested the 41-year-old in connection with a double murder at a West Onondaga Street apartment complex.

Monday, 31-year-old Lottie Thompson
was found stabbed to death in her apartment. Her body was discovered by a building manager. Investigators say she had been dead for several days, and that it was Wiley himself who tipped the building manager off to an odor coming from Thompson’s apartment.

Upon discovering Thompson's body, police began their investigation in her apartment and worked their way outdoors.

On Tuesday they discovered the body of 22-year-old Hannah Finnerty in a dumpster. On Wednesday, investigators confirmed that Finnerty was five months pregnant. Like Thompson, she died as the result of multiple stab wounds.

Police say Wiley, a Level 3 sex offender, lived in the apartment complex and worked there as a handyman.

Wiley was arrested following the discovery of Thompson’s body. After hours of interrogation, investigators say Wiley admitted to the murders of Thompson and Finnerty and discussed the possibility of other victims.

A joint effort has been launched between the Criminal Investigation Division and the Missing Persons Division.

Wiley entered a mandatory plea of not guilty for two charges of murder in the second degree.

He has been assigned an attorney, Tom Miller, and is being held without bail.

In addition to Miller, a representative of the Capital Defenders Office was present in court Wednesday.

If a third victim is found, Wiley may be charged with murder in the first degree and the DA will seek the death penalty.

Wiley’s history with the law is a turbulent one – in 1979, at the age of sixteen, he was convicted of sexually assaulting and stabbing a 25-year-old woman and spent four years in prison.

Four years later, in 1983, he was charged with entering a home on Niagara Street and beating a 67-year-old woman in the head with a claw hammer. He got away with sixty dollars and six dollars in food stamps. An appeals court overturned his sentence and reduced his jail time.

After spending seven years in prison for that crime, he moved to Hawley Avenue and was convicted of raping and sodomizing a sixteen-year-old girl. He served twelve years before an appeals court once again overturned and reduced that sentence.

Now, five months after his most recent release from prison, many people living in his neighborhood are furious they were not notified that a Level 3 sex offender was living in their area.

The New York State Senate has passed a bill that forces law enforcement agencies to give out information about Level 3 sex offenders to entities with vulnerable populations.

Right now it's up to law enforcement agencies to decide whether or not it's necessary to inform those areas about the offender.

The law would also make it mandatory to release the exact name and any alias of the offender.

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