Willie Bosket
Born: December 9, 1962
Location: New York City, New York
Crimes Convicted Of: 4 Accounts of Assualt, Theft, 4 Accounts of Robbery, 2 Accounts of Murder, Rape
Victim(s): Noel Perez and Moises Perez
Committing over 2000 crimes before even reaching adulthood, Willie Bosket was an adolescent master criminal. Willie committed his first murder on March 19, 1978 when he was only fifteen years old. An attempted robbery gone wrong, Willie Bosket shot Noel Perez on a New York City Subway. On March 27, 1978 Willie Bosket committed his second murder during another attempted robbery, shooting Moises Perez (no relation to prior victim) dead. When Willie Bosket was tried in court, he was given 5 years in a state youth facility, which he routinely tried to break out of. This punishment was clearly not equivalent to the severity of his crimes, which made the New York law officials question their state laws around murder. Willie Bosket's case inspired them to change the law so that children as young as thirteen years old can be tried as an adult in court and face the same penalties as an adult would. New York was the first state to enact these laws and many other states have used new law as the foundation for their own. Upon his release, Willie Bosket committed yet another assault and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, where he has racked up two additional life sentences for assaulting and stabbing a jail guard.
Location: New York City, New York
Crimes Convicted Of: 4 Accounts of Assualt, Theft, 4 Accounts of Robbery, 2 Accounts of Murder, Rape
Victim(s): Noel Perez and Moises Perez
Committing over 2000 crimes before even reaching adulthood, Willie Bosket was an adolescent master criminal. Willie committed his first murder on March 19, 1978 when he was only fifteen years old. An attempted robbery gone wrong, Willie Bosket shot Noel Perez on a New York City Subway. On March 27, 1978 Willie Bosket committed his second murder during another attempted robbery, shooting Moises Perez (no relation to prior victim) dead. When Willie Bosket was tried in court, he was given 5 years in a state youth facility, which he routinely tried to break out of. This punishment was clearly not equivalent to the severity of his crimes, which made the New York law officials question their state laws around murder. Willie Bosket's case inspired them to change the law so that children as young as thirteen years old can be tried as an adult in court and face the same penalties as an adult would. New York was the first state to enact these laws and many other states have used new law as the foundation for their own. Upon his release, Willie Bosket committed yet another assault and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, where he has racked up two additional life sentences for assaulting and stabbing a jail guard.
