Dancer is fed to the homeless - The Monika Beerle Story - Summary

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This is a video transcript about the murder of Monica Beerle, a Swiss dancer who moved to New York City in the 1980s and became a victim of Daniel Rakowitz, a mentally unstable drug dealer and cult leader. The video narrates how Rakowitz strangled, dismembered, cooked and ate parts of Beerle's body, and also fed her remains to the homeless people in Tompkins Square Park. The video also describes the background of both Beerle and Rakowitz, their brief relationship, the investigation and trial of the case, and the narrator's personal connection to the Lower East Side where the crime took place. The video ends with a warning to be careful of who you trust and to avoid evil intentions.

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1. The lower east side of New York City in the 1980s was a place of cultural diversity, artistic expression, and social problems such as crime, drugs, and homelessness.
2. Monica Biro was a 26-year-old dancer from Switzerland who moved to the lower east side in 1985 to pursue her career and attended the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
3. Daniel Rakowitz was a troubled hippie, drug dealer, and self-proclaimed cult leader who lived in the lower east side and was known as "Chicken Man" for his habit of feeding chicken soup to the homeless.
4. Monica and Daniel met in the summer of 1989 and had a brief sexual relationship that ended when Monica decided to kick Daniel out of her apartment at 171 Avenue B.
5. Daniel strangled, stabbed, dismembered, cooked, and ate parts of Monica's body in August 1989, with the help of a friend from a satanic church. He also distributed some of her remains as soup to the homeless people in Tompkins Square Park.
6. Sylvia, a friend and former roommate of Daniel, discovered Monica's skull and bones in the apartment and alerted the police after Daniel confessed to her.
7. Daniel was arrested in September 1989 and found not guilty by reason of insanity in February 1991. He was sent to a state hospital for the criminally insane where he still resides.
8. Randy Charles Easterday, the friend who helped Daniel kill Monica, was arrested in February 1992 but released due to lack of evidence.