03-03-2012, 10:22 PM
this has all the earmarks of a closeted gay man who took a stranger home.
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NYPost
A man was found murdered in his Chelsea apartment in New York on Friday night, with his hands and feet bound and duct tape over his mouth.
John Laubach, 57, well known by locals for carrying a parrot on his shoulder, was found tied to a bedpost with an electrical cord by a female friend.
The Manhattan apartment had been ransacked, however, police found no signs of forced entry.
The man, believed to be a former company CEO, was wearing just a white undershirt and his face was covered with a towel, reports the New York Post.
A female friend had gone to Laubach’s fourth floor apartment in West 22nd Street to check on him after he failed to answer her calls.
She called 911 just before 8pm after making the grim discovery, reports the Post.
'I always saw him walking around with a parrot on his shoulder,' a neighbor told the Post.
'He looked like Mel Brooks — just better looking.'
Sources said the Maryland native, who moved to the building after selling his Fifth Avenue apartment in 2010 for $650,000, was formerly a company CEO and had business interests overseas, according to the Post.
Bob Clemens, 57, who lived in the same building, told the Post that Laubach and a female friend had a close relationship.
'They went to church every Sunday. They came to my Christmas party. They were totally cool and fun.' he said.
Other locals recall him sitting on a bench near his apartment with the parrot on his shoulder.
Laubach’s former neighbors on Fifth Avenue described him as an outgoing person who had frequent male visitors, and regularly attended a nearby church.
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edit to add:
yep. thought so.
Sources told the New York Post that Mr Laubach often met young men for sex and cops are investigating whether his death was part of a sex game gone wrong.
Mr Laubach, who had been running his own floral design business since 2000, was wearing just a white undershirt and his face was covered with a towel.
NYPost
A man was found murdered in his Chelsea apartment in New York on Friday night, with his hands and feet bound and duct tape over his mouth.
John Laubach, 57, well known by locals for carrying a parrot on his shoulder, was found tied to a bedpost with an electrical cord by a female friend.
The Manhattan apartment had been ransacked, however, police found no signs of forced entry.
The man, believed to be a former company CEO, was wearing just a white undershirt and his face was covered with a towel, reports the New York Post.
A female friend had gone to Laubach’s fourth floor apartment in West 22nd Street to check on him after he failed to answer her calls.
She called 911 just before 8pm after making the grim discovery, reports the Post.
'I always saw him walking around with a parrot on his shoulder,' a neighbor told the Post.
'He looked like Mel Brooks — just better looking.'
Sources said the Maryland native, who moved to the building after selling his Fifth Avenue apartment in 2010 for $650,000, was formerly a company CEO and had business interests overseas, according to the Post.
Bob Clemens, 57, who lived in the same building, told the Post that Laubach and a female friend had a close relationship.
'They went to church every Sunday. They came to my Christmas party. They were totally cool and fun.' he said.
Other locals recall him sitting on a bench near his apartment with the parrot on his shoulder.
Laubach’s former neighbors on Fifth Avenue described him as an outgoing person who had frequent male visitors, and regularly attended a nearby church.
edit to add:
yep. thought so.
Sources told the New York Post that Mr Laubach often met young men for sex and cops are investigating whether his death was part of a sex game gone wrong.
Mr Laubach, who had been running his own floral design business since 2000, was wearing just a white undershirt and his face was covered with a towel.