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Jeffrey Conroy sits for 1st interview since arrest

Jeffrey Conroy talks during an interview with Newsday

Photo credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa | Jeffrey Conroy talks during an interview with Newsday at the Suffolk County jail four days after he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime in one of the most notorious crimes to go to trial on Long Island. (April 23, 2010)

Jeffrey Conroy has a strong gut reaction to the now-famous photograph of himself, handcuffed and walking ramrod-straight in his white jumpsuit, his ice-blue eyes staring straight ahead.

"That's not me," said the 19-year-old Medford man in his first interview since he was arrested in November 2008 on charges that he stabbed and killed Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero, 37, of Patchogue, after,...

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