FBI offers $25K in hunt for man wanted in alleged 1987 Manhattan murder

EAST VILLAGE, N.Y. (PIX11) -- Danny Liggett was 37, living in Hoboken, and had a Ph.D in education when he went on the lam in May 1987. 

The FBI said Liggett's desperation for drug money had led him to a building in the East Village of Manhattan on May 5 that year, where he hoped to sell a watch. Instead, Liggett's friend, Helen Torres, took him there.

"She told him to stay downstairs," FBI Special Agent Kyanne Sager told PIX11 News.  

The man living in the fifth-floor walk-up apartment at 343 East 10th Street, Kissoon Adams, was paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair,d he didn't have enough money to buy the watch. Liggett allegedly became enraged.

"He took out a knife and stabbed Mr. Adams repeatedly, causing his demise," NYPD Detective Raymond McCann told PIX11 News. "And Ms. Torres was cut to her throat."

Detective McCann said old police reports indicate Liggett warned Torres if she talked to the authorities, he would kill her.