{"id":80472,"date":"2025-12-24T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:56:13","slug":"ny-serial-killer-handyman-richard-fox-accused-of-3-grisly-murders-spanning-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80472\/","title":{"rendered":"NY ‘serial killer’ handyman Richard Fox accused of 3 grisly murders spanning decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

An upstate handyman is a suspected serial killer who was just charged with a third murder \u2014 and possibly has more victims out there, according to cops.<\/p>\n

Richard Fox, a 62-year-old pedophile rapist, was sentenced to 40 years in state prison last month after pleading guilty to the slayings of two Buffalo, NY, women: Cassandra Watson in 2003 and Marquita Mull in 2021, the Erie County District Attorney\u2019s Office said<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n

Richard Fox, 62, of Buffalo, NY, was already convicted of two murders and now is facing a third slay rap. WKBW TV<\/p>\n

On Monday, prosecutors in nearby Niagara County added to Fox\u2019s gruesome tally by charging him with the January 2023 murder<\/a> of 32-year-old Crystal Curthoys, who was found in a boarded-up space under a basement staircase in the Niagara Falls home she once shared with the accused killer.<\/p>\n

Chautauqua County Sheriff James Quattrone<\/a> said he now considers Fox a \u201cserial killer\u201d \u2014 who also may be responsible for \u201cat least two or three\u201d more murders, according to local outlet WKBW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do believe that there is other victims,\u201d Quattrone told Syracuse.com<\/a> this week. \u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that Richard Fox will hopefully try to ease his conscience a little bit and give us some more information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox of Buffalo was arrested in the first two killings in January.<\/p>\n

Watson, 40, was strangled more than 20 years ago and her body dumped in the town of Portland, where her remains were discovered by a hiker in 2021.<\/p>\n

Fox\u2019s victims include Cassandra Watson (left) and Marquita Mull, authorities said..<\/p>\n

Richard Fox was sentenced to 40 years in prison last month for the pair of murders. NYS Sex Offender Registry<\/p>\n

Mull, 50, was killed in June 2021 \u2014 with her body found four months later near the Chautauqua Rails to Trails hiking spot in Buffalo, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The judge who sentenced Fox in the two slayings called him pure \u201cevil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can honestly say you should never see the light of day. Evil. That is the one word that sums up this case. Evil,\u201d Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes said in slapping Fox with two consecutive 20-year terms behind bars.<\/p>\n

Fox had been convicted of two sex crimes in the past, WIVB-TV News reported<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

In 1993, he was convicted in the third-degree rape of a 14-year-old girl and hit with a prison sentence of 18 months to three years, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

In 2005, he was convicted of the first-degree attempted rape and aggravated sexual abuse of a 42-year-old Buffalo woman and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, WIVB said.<\/p>\n

Fox is currently being held at the Niagara County Jail on the new charges and is due in court Jan. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upstate handyman is a suspected serial killer who was just charged with a third murder \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57,238,9,11,10,15339,11854,817,58],"class_list":["post-80472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-serial-killers","tag-sex-offenders","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80472","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=80472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}