The Elder Parole bill would let violent criminals dodge their minimum sentences<\/a>, regardless of how heinous their crimes, and be granted early parole hearings after they\u2019ve turned 55 and served 15 years of their sentences.\u00a0<\/p>\nBraunstein was arrested for posing as a firefighter to get into a woman\u2019s Chelsea apartment and then sexually abusing her for 13 hours in 2005. <\/p>\n
A second measure, the Fair and Timely Parole bill, would require the state Parole Board to release convicts regardless of the severity of their crimes unless they are a \u201ccurrent\u201d danger to the public.<\/p>\n
Braunstein had a parole hearing last year and was denied because he didn\u2019t show up for it, but is set to reappear before the board next year.<\/p>\n
In the letter, Braunstein wrote that the only way he\u2019s getting out is \u201cin a body bag.\u201d New York Post<\/p>\n
Critics fear lunatics like him might be sprung if the bills become law. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think you\u2019re going to see a lot of murderers released. . . . murderers and sex offenders, and assuredly some criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes in New York. . . . I\u2019m talking about guys like [John Lennon\u2019s murderer] Mark David Chapman and the Son of Sam [serial killer David Berkowitz],\u201d said former Parole Board Commissioner and state Sen. Marc Coppola, who resigned from the board in September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the difference between the two bills is some of them will actually be released earlier than their minimum, and that alone, I think, is very very wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s disrespectful to the victim and the victims\u2019 families.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also wrote that if he was let out tomorrow, \u201cI\u2019d be reincarcerated in short order because all I\u2019d do is kill people.\u201d New York Post<\/p>\n
Had Braunstein shown up for that missed hearing in 2025 \u2014 and attended a second hearing \u2014 he\u2019d likely walk free as the bills are written, Coppola said.<\/p>\n
But Braunstein insists he doesn\u2019t want to get out.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe only way I\u2019m leaving prison is in a body bag,\u201d Braunstein wrote in the three-page missive written in blue ink on yellow legal-pad paper.<\/p>\n
And both he and the public are better off, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis may seem hard to believe and is certainly not the typical inmate position, but when I committed my crimes in 05 I was done with the world and I have consistently maintained that position ever since,\u201d said Braunstein.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrison isn\u2019t just where I deserve to be, it\u2019s where I want to be because it separates me from a world I loathe.\u201d<\/p>\n
He closed the letter saying he enjoyed reading The Post\u2019s coverage of his trial. New York Post<\/p>\n
The failed playwright has been busy behind bars, revealing he has written a sick book about incest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote a mini-novel called Infinite Wishes about a teenage girl who has an ambiguous sexual relationship with her father and goes on to acquire special powers,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cSure, I\u2019d love to see it published but that\u2019s unlikely, but it\u2019s still gratifying as a personal accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Halloween night 2005, Braunstein set a fire outside the 36-year-old victim\u2019s apartment and pretended to be a firefighter in a ruse to get her to open the door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019d serving 18 years to life at Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo. Google<\/p>\n
Once inside, he chloroformed the woman, stripped her to her underwear, and bound and sexually assaulted her for more than 13 hours, videotaping the savage abuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was terrified,\u201d the victim, a former writer for W magazine, testified at his 2007 trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me I was lucky I was alive,\u201d she testified, remembering waking up bound by her wrists and ankle to her bed \u2014 wearing only her pink underwear and a pair of bronze stilettos he had found in her closet.<\/p>\n
He wore a full firefighters uniform and set fire to his victim\u2019s hallway to get inside her apartment. eBay<\/p>\n
Even then, Braunstein fancied himself a killer. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me he\u2019d already killed a few people,\u201d she said. \u201cHe said he had a list of people who were going to die.\u201d <\/p>\n
Before leaving, he scrawled a mocking note on her mirror: \u201cBye \u2014 Hope things turn around for U soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
He used chloroform to knock his victim out repeatedly when she came to during the attack. eBay<\/p>\n
Braunstein was convicted of kidnapping, sexual abuse, robbery and burglary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once he completes his sentence, Braunstein has to serve another 23 years in Ohio for kidnapping a male psychiatrist while he was on the lam for two months. <\/p>\n
He was finally captured in Tennessee, stabbing himself in the neck in a failed suicide attempt as cops closed in.<\/p>\n
Braunstein also faces a 23-year jail sentence in Ohio for attacking a psychiatrist while he was on the lam.<\/p>\n
In his letter to The Post, Braunstein said he still thinks about the victim, whose name was never made public, \u201cfrom time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, he continued to show no remorse for his crime and outrageously claimed \u201cI kind of bonded with her while I held her captive, kind of like Stockholm Syndrome in reverse.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim lived in a building in Chelsea. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
In another appalling claim, he wrote that the cruel crime was \u201can act of self definition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou find out \u2013 if you want to \u2013 who you really are,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notorious imprisoned NYC sex fiend Peter Braunstein is making a case against state parole reform, warning of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,68,57,9,24,55,54,56,4437,5180,4719,5161,58],"class_list":["post-293171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany","tag-exclusive","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-parole","tag-perverts","tag-prisons","tag-sexual-assaults","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}