He had a Princeton degree, a place in Manhattan high society, and a $1,000-a-week allowance funding it all. Then his family decided he needed to grow up — and started cutting him off.
What Thomas Gilbert Jr. did next horrified even New York’s elite. He waited until his mother left the apartment on a strange errand, walked into the room where his hedge-fund father was sitting, and pulled the trigger. Then he tried to make it look like a suicide.
A jury saw through all of it. He’s now serving 30 years to life. But nearly a decade later, he’s broken his silence from prison — and what he’s claiming has reopened the whole case.
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