Sadistic serial killer Kevin Gavinmurdered three elderly women living at the same New York City high-rise apartment building during a span of six years by ingratiating himself to them as their “helpful handyman.”
Gavin, 71, was arrested on Jan. 21, 2021, after he was caught on store surveillance cameras using a debit card belonging to third victim Juanita Caballero, 78, who was found days earlier with a telephone cord tightly wrapped around her neck, The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
However, Darrin James tells Globe he believes Juanita would be alive today if police had heeded his warnings and investigated the creep following the stomping death of his 83-year-old grandmother, Jacolia James — Gavin’s second victim — whose battered body was discovered in her 11th-floor apartment on April 30, 2019.
“She was perfectly fine when I left, and when I came back, she was dead,” Darrin says, recalling the chilling moment he saw Gavin, who lived on the sixth floor, trying to sweet-talk his way into his grandma’s apartment that same morning…