In the early morning hours of April 20th, 1989, two construction workers walking through Central Park in New York City made a horrific discovery.

The body of an unconscious barely alive young woman who had been jogging in the park.

She'd been brutally raped, beaten, and left for dead.

The Central Park jogger, as she'd become known, was a 28-year-old white woman and an investment banker who worked for

Salmon Brothers. Tricia Myley eventually recovered but remembered nothing of the

attack. Her identity wasn't revealed at the time but she's since spoken publicly about her experience.

The police immediately focused on large group of teenagers who had been in the park hours before,

and some of them had been participating at what seemed to be random acts of

criminality like harassing and attacking passers-by.

You see in the 1980s New York City was a very different place than it is now, both in people's experience In the The poet and humorous Ogden Nash wrote this of Central Park in a poem called City

Greenery from 1961. If you should happen after dark to find yourself in Central Park.

Ignore the paths that beckon you and hurry, hurry to the zoo

and creep into the tiger's lair.

Frankly, you'll be safer there.

And so New Yorkers were understandably riveted by the story.

There was enormous pressure on the police to solve the case as quickly as possible.

The police eventually focused on five teenagers that they thought were responsible for the attack

Youssef Salaam Raymond Santana Kevin Richardson

Antron McCray and Corey Wise

Four were African American, one was Hispanic, and all of them were between the ages of 14 and 16 at the time of their arrests. In other words, they were kids.

New York City Mayor Ed Koch called it the crime of the century.

Newspapers quickly referred to the teens as part of a wolf pack that was engaged in the night of Wilding.

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