A New York state parole board has denied releasing Bernard LeGeros on his 1985 conviction for murdering a fashion student wearing a leather mask and burning the body following a night of sadomasochism in Stony Point.
LeGeros will continue serving 25 years to life in prison for shooting Eigil Dag Vesti twice in the head on Feb. 23, 1985, at LeGeros' parents' home on Buckberg Mountain Road in Tomkins Cove.
LeGeros, now 47, comes up for parole again in November 2011.
LeGeros and others then put Vesti's nude body into a smokehouse and set the corpse on fire.
Vesti was killed following a night of S&M sex — including being bound and whipped.
LeGeros' boss, Manhattan art studio owner Andrew Crispo , had picked up Vesti at the Limelight night club, a former church building on West 26th Street in Manhattan.
Stony Point police arrested LeGeros in March 1985. Vesti's skeletal remains were found March 17, 1985, by hikers. Animals had eaten his flesh.
While LeGeros admitted shooting Vesti, he also said Crispo ordered him to and Crispo took part in the S&M with Vesti, 26, an aspiring model and student at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
LeGeros' lawyer, Murray Sprung, argued during the trial that Crispo was the Svengali who controlled LeGeros.
The prosecution lacked any corroboration of LeGeros' contention to bring criminal charges against Crispo .
The County Court jury rejected LeGeros' insanity defense and convicted him of second-degree murder. He also was convicted of second-degree kidnapping in a separate case.
Judge Robert Meehan sentenced LeGeros to 25 to life in prison.
LeGeros, the son of a United Nations official, made his first appearance before the parole board in January.
During his parole interview, LeGeros admitted shooting Vesti, no longer implicating Crispo or blaming drug use, according to the transcript released today by the state Division of Parole.
"I take full responsibility," LeGeros told the panel. "At the time this happened, my moral compass was off. I don't want to say it's drugs or anything else because although, although that played a part in my life, it's my bad choices and decisions."
The three panelists found that if they released LeGeros, "there is a reasonable probability that you would not live at liberty without violating the law."
The panelists also quoted Meehan, who told LeGeros at his sentencing, "I must protect society from you. This was a sadomasochistic execution and you, sir, were the executioner."
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