HOT DOG DEATH RULED A 40-YEAR-OLD MURDER

Police have launched a murder investigation going back four decades after a man choked to death on a raw hot dog.
Jimmy Crawford, 65, died in July when he had a seizure in mid-mouthful.
Now a medical examiner in New York has ruled his death a homicide – because his seizures were the result of a brutal attack in Greenwich Village in 1965.
His ruling has detectives in the 6th Precinct hunting for a suspect, but so far they have not found a record of the attack.
“I doubt very much if any of the detectives involved are still alive,” Crawford's uncle, Tom Delaney, himself a retired New York detective, told the New York Daily News.
Another uncle, retired dock worker Neil Delaney, 82, said Crawford was with friends when they got into a racial confrontation with a car full of black men.
“He was between two parked cars when one of the guys came up behind him and gave him a crack in the head with a jack handle,” he said. “They jumped back in the car and got away.”
He added there was police investigation at the time.
Crawford, who was training to be a Wall Street accountant at the time of the attack, was left with a metal plate in his head and slurred speech.
Afterwards the only work he could find was as a porter.
“This destroyed Jim's life,” Tom Delaney said. “He had a good future in front of him and then everything went down the tubes.”
Family and friends said they were stunned by the verdict. His aunt, Dorothy Hogan, said: “This comes out of the blue.”
Crawford was enjoying the uncooked sausage in a bun when he had the seizure.
A neighbour tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but could not save him.