Prosecutor: Fire ties 2 defendants to Central Islip murders
Photo credit: James Carbone | Investigators examine a Central Islip house where three bodies were found by crew responding to a fire at the Hickory Street home. Each of the victims, two women and a man, had been shot to death, one of them also strangled with an electrical cord, authorities say. (Aug. 11, 2009)
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The killers set fire to a Central Islip house to cover their tracks but, a Suffolk prosecutor told two juries Monday, it was the fire that tied the two men on trial to the scene of three gruesome murders.
Hasan Vaughan and Thomas Singletary, both 36 and of Central Islip, went on trial Monday before Suffolk County Court Judge James Hudson on first-degree murder, arson and other charges. They...
