New York Homicide

A hidden bloody hand print helped lead investigators to the man who brutally murdered Catherine Woods, a woman who moved to New York City to pursue Broadway dreams.

The 1995 Brooklyn murder of Sylvia Lugo left the neighborhood reeling and led to tensions rising between LGBTQ residents and the NYPD.  

Despite a duplicitous witness, detectives were able to discover who murdered an 18-year-old woman inside her Staten Island home.

Investigators follow a trail of voodoo curses and a friendship gone deadly to solve a brutal Brooklyn homicide.

Helen Mintiks left during a break at a Metropolitan Opera House performance. When the show began and she didn't come back, investigators had to determine which coworker had murdered her.

After a trio of girls said goodbye to Joey Comunale at a NYC apartment following a night of partying, three other men were still there. Which one of them killed him and buried his body in the New Jersey woods?

Oxygen digital correspondent Stephanie Gomulka speaks with retired NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert K. Boyce about the jaw-dropping cases featured in "New York Homicide."

"[I think] the toughest work in the NYPD is solving a homicide, and getting that victim's family some measure of justice," retired NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert K. Boyce told Oxygen digital correspondent Stephanie Gomulka.

Before learning about real-life crimes on Oxygen's new series "New York Homicide," watch these fictional NYC crime shows.

These everyday offenses committed in New York City aren’t against the law. But they should be.