Man smelling of gasoline turns himself in to police hours after woman burned alive by brutal killer in elevator

A man smelling of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman set on fire in the elevator of her apartment building.

The 47-year-old man, who hasn't been charged, said he had started a fire, according to a New York Police Department spokesman. The man's identity hasn't been released.


Delores Gillespie, 64, was burned to death by a man who doused her with a flammable liquid and set her alight in an elevator.


The unidentified attacker - reportedly the woman's ex-boyfriend - was waiting at the Brooklyn, New York apartment block for the woman to return home.      Read Here