Peter Braunstein formerly worked as a writer for Women's Wear Daily and The Village Voice, and his former colleagues avidly followed the case on blogs.
27 Facts About Peter Braunstein
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Peter Braunstein is currently serving his 18-year-to-life sentence at Five Points Correctional Facility; he will be eligible for parole in 2023.
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Peter Braunstein was born to Alberto and Angele Braunstein in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City.
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Peter Braunstein studied abroad at Sorbonne in Paris and is fluent in French.
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Peter Braunstein came back to New York to pursue a PhD in history from NYU.
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Peter Braunstein began dating his coworker, W beauty editor Jane Larkworthy.
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Peter Braunstein was charged with 37 counts of harassment, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three years probation.
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On November 22,2004, Peter Braunstein cut his own chest with a knife and then claimed his ex-girlfriend attacked him.
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Peter Braunstein was taken by the police to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and released after two hours.
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Peter Braunstein went back to live with his mother in Queens, which earned him the nickname "George Costanza" among his associates.
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Peter Braunstein stopped talking to his father after he made a negative comment about the play.
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Peter Braunstein came up with a hit list of "gay men" whom he wanted to "punish".
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Peter Braunstein then knocked on the door of the victim's apartment and told her he was there to check for smoke damage.
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Police have discovered that Peter Braunstein purchased a voice-altering device on eBay five days before the attack.
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The crime received a great amount of media attention for a number of reasons - one is that Peter Braunstein was a well-educated writer and journalist from an upper-middle-class family.
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Peter Braunstein was able to avoid arrest for several weeks while apparently still residing in New York, where his photo graced the front pages of most newspapers and footage of the suspect was played on the evening news almost daily.
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Peter Braunstein has been followed in great detail by gossip blogs such as Gawker, with the editor Jessica Coen going as far as creating a special section to document her findings.
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On November 17,2005, Peter Braunstein was spotted at a local Cobble Hill coffee shop in Brooklyn.
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Peter Braunstein then stabbed himself thirteen times in the neck yet survived the suicide attempt.
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On Christmas Day, the New York Post reported that Peter Braunstein had been working at Xavier High School, a prominent New York all-boys private school.
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Peter Braunstein's employment was mere archiving work and had no direct contact with any students.
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English teacher and rugby coach Mike Tolkin said that Peter Braunstein "kept to himself".
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Peter Braunstein's victim testified at length about the assault, and Larkworthy recalled on the stand how Braunstein had played out elements of the crime when the two were together.
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Peter Braunstein recounted how she had, unlike other prominent fashion editors, never deigned to speak to him on the phone.
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Peter Braunstein's defense tried to argue that he had a brain dysfunction that left him unable to distinguish fantasy and reality, that during the assault he had been living in the former.
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Peter Braunstein's lawyers put a psychologist on the stand as an expert witness, and tried to show when cross-examining Larkworthy that he was displaying similar symptoms even then.
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On June 18,2007, Peter Braunstein was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.