New York Police Department Detective Ryan Glas was a 10-year-old kid when a sickly Harlem mom and her special needs daughter were strangled inside their home in 1994.
The cold case investigator, now 39, helped close the long-dormant homicide probe last week with the arrest of murder suspect Larry Atkinson, indicted for the unsolved double homicide. Glas chose the case, his first with the unit, last Feb. 9 after joining the unit.
“This particular (case) stood out to me given that it was a mother and a daughter,” he told The New York Daily News, adding family members were shocked by last week’s unexpected arrest of a suspect with a long rap sheet.
