NEW CITY, N.Y -- The son of a U.N. executive has been indicted for the sado-masochistic sex-slaying of a male Norwegian modeling student.
A Rockland County grand jury Tuesday handed up the indictment for second-degree murder against Bernard John Le Geros, 22, of Manhattan, after prosectuors presented five witnesses in the case.
Le Geros was charged with the Feb. 23 shooting death in Stony Brook of Eigil Vesti, 26, a modeling student at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The defendant also allegedly tried to dispose of Vesti's body by burning it twice.
LeGeros was to be arraigned at 2 p.m. today before Rockland County Judge Robert Meehan.
Prosecutors charged that Le Geros engaged in sado-masochistic activity with Vesti at his parents' 2.5 acre estate. Le Geros allegedly led Vesti, who was wearing only a hooded leather 'bondage mask,' to the estate's smokehouse and shot him twice with a .22-caliber rifle.
Le Geros then tried to get rid of Vesti's body by burning it. He returned a week later and tried again to burn it, prosecutors said.
A second suspect is being sought in the case, but Gribetz has refused to disclose any further information.
Le Geros, who had studied film at New York University, was employed at the Crispo Art Gallery on East 57th Street in Manhattan. His father, John Le Geros, works in the U.N. Development Program.
Vesti, who was to have graduated from FIT this year, had been missing from his New York City apartment for three weeks. His body was found March 17 by hikers in a wooded area of the Le Geros estate.
