 He had served 52 years, making him one of the longest-serving inmates in the New York State prison system.In the days following the murder, it did not receive much media attention.It took a remark from the New York City Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to "New York Times" metropolitan editor A. M. Rosenthal over lunch — Rosenthal later quoted Murphy as saying, "That Queens story is one for the books" — to motivate the "Times" into publishing an investigative report.