By MURRAY WEISS
May 22, 2008
A killer doing life for strangling a Harlem woman has allegedly confessed to murdering two others - and even took cops on an eerie excursion to a Queens yard where police backhoes yesterday tried to unearth a victim.
Under heavy security, a handcuffed and shackled Gregory Wynder, 55, directed detectives to where he said he buried a homeless woman, Jackie Torres, in the side yard of a home where he once lived on 170th Street in Jamaica.
Cops ended the search at 8:45 p.m., removing three to five bags of evidence, including some tattered clothing.
Wynder reportedly started confessing out of the blue while serving a life sentence for the Sept 9, 2001, robbery and strangulation of Jenetta Scott Goodman in her West 122nd Street apartment.
In late April, the Queens DA's Office drew up a criminal complaint charging the serial killer with the 1997 fatal stabbing of Aja Grant, 16, a runaway from New Jersey, sources said. During the same interrogation, he also told detectives he killed and buried Torres in Queens.
Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese and Cynthia R. Fagen
