A 21-year-old man awaiting trial on charges he raped a Long Island woman at gunpoint last year is accused of hatching a plot in prison to have her killed, and allegedly used paper airplane notes to enlist a fellow inmate. Greg Cergol reports. (Published Wednesday, Oct 2, 2013) 
 
 A 21-year-old man awaiting trial on charges he raped a Long Island woman at gunpoint last year is accused of hatching a plot in prison to have her killed, and allegedly used paper airplane notes to enlist a fellow inmate. 
 
 Patrick O'Sullivan, 21, appeared briefly in court Wednesday as the new charges against him were made public. He is set to be arraigned formally next week on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. 
 
 Prosecutors say O'Sullivan tried to convince a fellow inmate, who is set to be released before the end of the year, to carry out the killing of the victim and a witness, offering him $23,000. 
 
 He launched folded notes from his cell to the other inmate to describe his plan, prosecutors said. 
 
 "Without a vic's statement, the DA's case against me would lose all the power right? As long as you get that done, I will be Gucci," he is accused of saying. 
 
 The unidentified inmate never carried out the killings. Instead he contacted authorities and is cooperating. 
 
 O'Sullivan already faces up to life in prison if convicted of the rape. He's accused of attacking a woman who was house-sitting at the Stony Brook home of a friend. He allegedly tied her up with Duct tape, and then raped and sodomized her at gunpoint. 
 
 "This is a dangerous man," said Suffolk County DA Thomas Spota. 
 
 A call to O'Sullivan's lawyer, William Keahon, was not immediately returned. ||||| An alleged Long Island rapist offered a fellow inmate $23,000 to rub out his female accuser and a witness — and nurtured a sick fantasy about mailing the man’s head to his family “for the holidays,�? police said Wednesday. 
 
 “After you kill the victim, dump her body in the water,�? Patrick O’Sullivan wrote in a chilling note obtained by police. 
 
 “After you kill the witness, bury the witness so after the case against me collapses and I get out of jail I can dig up the body, cut its head off and mail it to his family for the holidays.�? 
 
 But instead of doing O’Sullivan’s bidding, the inmate turned the malevolent messages over to the law. 
 
 And in one especially damning note, O’Sullivan actually admitted he was wearing gloves but not a condom during the attack — and made it clear why she had to be killed. 
 
 “The DA needs a crying bitch to really get a conviction, right?�? he allegedly wrote. 
 
 With the victim and the witness out of the way, O’Sullivan allegedly wrote, “I should be Gucci.�? 
 
 That’s jail-speak for okay, police said. 
 
 Now O’Sullivan, 21, has had two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the second degree added to the raft of charges he was already facing for the brutal rape — and he’s been sent to a section of the Suffolk County jail reserved for the nastiest prisoners. 
 
 “He’s obviously watched closely,�? Sheriff Vincent DeMarco said. “He is a dangerous guy.�? 
 
 O'Sullivan attacked the woman at gunpoint last November as she was housesitting in Stony Brook, L.I, raping and sodomizing her repeatedly, police said. 
 
 Bound and brutalized, the woman used her tongue to call 911, they said. 
 
 O'Sullivan, of East Moriches, pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of predatory sexual assault, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, burglary in the first degree and criminal use of a firearm. 
 
 Then, after O’Sullivan couldn’t raise the $100,000 bail to get out of jail, he began plotting “a new scheme he believed would result in his freedom,�? said Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota. 
 
 To that end, O’Sullivan enlisted the help of a “hit man�? he met behind bars — and with whom he communicated via “kites,�? which are paper airplanes on which inmates write secret messages and float to each others’ cells, Spota said. 
 
 O’Sullivan gave the inmate detailed descriptions of the victim and the witness, their addresses, the cars they drive, and even drew an “escape route,�? Spota said. 
 
 “Your best bet is a ladder or follow him,�? O’Sullivan wrote of the witness, according to Spota. “Get him to pull over and cap his ass.�? 
 
 O’Sullivan also assured the inmate that nobody would find out about the plot and insisted he was no “snitch.�? 
 
 “Keep in mind my lips are sealed,�? he wrote. “Once you do it I consider myself in debt to you.�? 
 
 Even if O’Sullivan had succeeded in getting the woman and witness bumped off, he probably wouldn’t have gotten out of jail, Spota said. 
 
 “He doesn’t think that through,�? he said. 
 
 In one of his notes to the inmate, O’Sullivan referred to the crime scene as “my dudes house.�? But when a reporter went out to the tidy home on the Long Island Sound, the man living there was reluctant to discuss the case. 
 
 “We were told not to say anything about it,�? said the man, who declined to give his name. “I don't want to hurt the case. I want to make sure the guy goes away like he's supposed to.�? 
 
 vchinese@nydailynews.com
– A Long Island man accused of rape will now also be charged with conspiracy to murder after what police say was a plot hatched using, well, paper airplanes. Patrick O'Sullivan, 21, had hoped to kill his alleged victim and a witness, police say, and offered a fellow inmate $23,000 to make it happen, via flying notes the men called "kites," NBC New York reports. "Without a vic's statement, the DA's case against me would lose all the power right? As long as you get that done, I will be Gucci," said one message, which the other inmate (who is set to be released soon) then handed over to police. O'Sullivan's alleged plot was particularly gruesome: He wanted the victim's body dumped in the water, but the witness' body buried ... "so after the case against me collapses and I get out of jail I can dig up the body, cut its head off and mail it to his family for the holidays," one of the notes allegedly said. O'Sullivan is accused of raping the woman at gunpoint while she was housesitting, the New York Daily News reports; he allegedly admitted in one of the notes that he wasn't wearing a condom. O'Sullivan could face life in prison for the rape charge alone. (In another recent case, a wife convinced her husband to shoot their neighbor ... over "telepathic rape.")