Lester Ford

Lester Ford (born February 11, 1963) is an American serial killer and rapist who murdered three women in the Queens borough of New York City between January and July 1991. He was arrested after a survivor positively identified him and he confessed to the murders. Convicted of three counts of second degree murder, he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 40 years served and has been incarcerated at the Elmira Correctional Facility ever since.

Early life Ford was born on February 11, 1963, in the neighborhood of St. Albans in Queens, among five other siblings. In 1979, he was arrested after a botched drug deal, a crime for which he was sentenced to five-years imprisonment. He was paroled in September 1989 and later found employment as a mail-clerk for the now-defunct NYNEX telephone company in Long Island. By 1991, he was living in his mother's home which he also shared with his stepfather, two brothers and two sisters. He was known to neighbors as "Justice". She was on her way home after attending a wedding when Ford approached and threw her to the ground. He taped her ankles together and her mouth shut but did not sexually assault her. Rather, he strangled her to death and dumped her body under some bleachers at Peters Park baseball field, where it would be found almost three weeks later. Although there was no sort of identification on her, she was positively identified by her husband, Eugene. He dumped her body behind a convenience store along Linden Boulevard just outside Queens, and when it was found a link with the Dixon case was almost immediately established. Ford brandished his gun and raped her at gunpoint before shooting her in the face and fleeing. Approximately six hours after being emitted, the baby was successfully delivered, but Bost herself never regained consciousness and was declared dead shortly after.

Arrest and conviction On July 26, 1991, Ford was prowling through a neighborhood in southeastern Queens when his latest rape victim, who was riding in a police surveillance van, spotted him and positively identified him as her attacker. After interviewing Ford and confronting him with the evidence, he confessed to the murders, claiming he was a "sexually determined young man". A press conference was held following the confession and the public was officially told that the Queens serial killer had been caught. They were arrested and charged with assault and tampering with a witness. In March 1992, Ford accepted a plea agreement, confessing to his crimes, and was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison. He is serving his sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility.