Man who set woman on fire pleads guilty, to get 50 years
Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes on Wednesday announced the guilty plea of Jerome Isaac, 48, for the December 2011 murder of a woman that he lit on fire inside her apartment-building elevator.
Isaac pled guilty to the top charge of murder in the first degree, for acting in an especially cruel and wanton manner, intentionally causing death while inflicting great physical pain as a course of torture, and arson in the second degree.
He will be sentenced on Nov. 30 before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice to 25 years to life for the murder charge and 25 years for the arson, which will run consecutively.