NEW YORK — A teenager with a website describing him as a sadomasochist and featuring photos of a knife collection was arrested Wednesday in the stabbing death of a former Denver radio personality he met on the Internet.
Police officials said John Katehis, 16, confessed to killing George Weber shortly after being taken into custody late Tuesday in Middletown, N.Y., where he was hiding out at a friend’s home.
Weber worked for KIMN, KOA, KHOW and KTLK in Denver in the 1980s and early 1990s. He later joined WABC radio in New York.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a news conference Wednesday that the meeting between the suspect and Weber, 47, involved “an exchange of money.”
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because charges were still being drawn up, later said the suspect claimed Weber had offered him $60 to have rough sex.
Police found Weber’s bound body Sunday in the bedroom of his Brooklyn apartment after his boss reported him missing. He had been stabbed at least 50 times and bound at the ankles with duct tape.
