The kinky killer - Video Dailymotion

The kinky killer - Video Dailymotion: WHITE PLAINS, June 2,1989— Joseph Pikul, the former Wall Street securities analyst who was awaiting sentencing for the murder of his wife, died early today after a one-week stay in a Goshen, N.Y., hospital. The cause of his death ''will not be known until a full toxicological examination is conducted,'' said Alan Joseph, the Orange County assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case earlier this year. Both the hospital and the prosecutor refused to comment on the possibility, raised by Mr. Pikul's lawyer, that he was suffering from AIDS. His lawyer, Ronald J. Bekoff, said a tape recording of an argument between Mr. Pikul and his former wife, Diane, which was submitted last week as part of a motion to set aside the guilty verdict, included her angry assertion that she had heard he had had a homosexual encounter and had contracted the AIDS virus. The hospital declined to describe the treatment given the 54-year-old Mr. Pikul. Mr. Bekoff said his client ''was being treated for loss of weight and that he wasn't feeling well.'' He said Mr. Pikul ''was lucid, and he was optimistic that the verdict would be set aside.'' Admitted 'in Poor Health' A spokeswoman for Arden Hill Hospital in Goshen, Nina Lewis, said Mr. Pikul had been transferred from the Orange County jail in Goshen to the hospital's emergency ward last Friday ''in poor health.'' ''His condition worsened yesterday,'' she said, ''and he was transferred to the intensive care unit, where his condition was listed as critical.'' He died there after midnight, she said, saying an autopsy would determine the cause of death. Mr. Pikul was found guilty of strangling and beating Diane, his second wife, in their summer home in Amagansett, L.I., in 1987. He was facing 15 years to life in prison. Mr. Joseph, the prosecutor, said the micro-cassette tape recording ''was allegedly found by Mary Pikul,'' the defendant's third wife, whom he married while awaiting trial, ''while going through his personal effects'' after the verdict. The tape, according to Mr. Pikul's lawyers, included threats by Diane Pikul that she would kill him, thus presumably supporting the defense's central contention that Mr. Pikul killed his wife in self-defense. The jury foreman had said that self-defense was considered and rejected by the jury during its nine hours of deliberations.