NYC gay bar druggings

As the first of six defendants was sentenced to nine years' prison, victims say they are as perplexed now about the encounters as they were when they first regained consciousness

Julio Ramirez died after leaving a popular Manhattan gay bar and getting into a cab with three unidentified men. His bank accounts were drained days later.

NBC News spoke to two people who described harrowing experiences that seem to broadly fit a pattern of robberies that left two men dead.

Linda Clary didn’t believe her 33-year-old son’s death after a night out at an NYC gay bar was an accident, so she made it her mission to prove otherwise.