NYPD: GARY McGURK KILLS MICHELLE LEE, LEAVES WITH PASSPORT

Michelle Lee, 24, murdered by Gary McGurk, 23. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown issued a statement calling Lee a "young woman with a bright and promising future which was abruptly cut short by her brutal and senseless murder..."

Gary McGurk has been arrested for the grisly murder of his ex-girlfriend, NYPD CSI Michele Lee. Police say Gary McGurk, an Irish citizen, was walking out of a side door carrying a passport and a bag of clothes.

Gary McGurk appears in a New York court charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, Michelle Lee, whose naked body was discovered in her apartment last month. McGurk is charged with 2nd degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held without bail.

Former beau Gary McGurk busted in grisly slay of NYPD CSI Michele Lee
BY Nicole Bode and Alison Gendar / DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, May 22nd 2009

An ex-boyfriend who conned thousands of dollars from his NYPD girlfriend was arrested Thursday in her grisly murder, sources told the Daily News.

Gary McGurk, a handsome Irish soccer player at CUNY John Jay College, is accused of stabbing his former girlfriend Michele Lee in the throat and searing her chest with a hot iron after she was dead.

He was arrested Thursday night at his mother's house in Woodside, Queens, and is being held at the 108th Precinct stationhouse on second-degree murder charges.

Detectives had zeroed in on McGurk in the days after Lee's naked body was found stabbed, bound and brutalized in her Sunnyside apartment on April 27.

Investigators were afraid McGurk would flee to his native Ireland and escape justice, sources said.

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MICHELLE LEE: NYPD FORENSICS INVESTIGATOR, BRUTALIZED BY GARY McGURK

Michelle Lee, 24, met Gary McGurk at John Jay Criminal College. Forensics ties McGurk to the crime scene.

Gary McGurk, 23, accused of slaughtering ex-lover, Michelle Lee . (Iudici for News)

NYPD forensic investigator stabbed to death
Ex-lover charged with second-degree murder in 24-year-old's killing
ASSOCIATED PRESS / Sat., May 23, 2009

NEW YORK - Michelle Lee's career was solving crimes. Working as a forensic investigator for the New York Police Department, she was training to do the type of "CSI" work made famous on television.

But the 24-year-old became a victim of a crime herself, stabbed to death in her bed, her naked body found in a pool of blood. Using the same investigative techniques Lee was learning, authorities on Friday arrested her ex-lover Gary McGurk in the case, charging him with second-degree murder.

McGurk pleaded not guilty and was being held without bail. His attorney, Joseph Corozzo said his client was innocent.

"This is a gruesome crime, but my client is not responsible for it," he said. "We look forward to seeing the purported evidence in this case."

Lee had recently moved out of her parent's home and was living in Sunnyside, Queens, a quaint neighborhood of working-class families. She started working for the NYPD last September and was training in forensic investigations at a police lab analyzing evidence like hair samples, drugs, gunshot residues and bodily fluids. She was going to specialize in narcotics.

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