Shulman was born in 1954 and worked as a postal clerk on Long Island. He was married and lived a conventional life alongside all of it.
Between 1991 and 1995 he killed five women, most of them working as prostitutes in Westchester and Suffolk counties: Lori Vasquez, twenty-four; Lisa Ann Warner, eighteen; Kelly Sue Bunting; and two women who have never been identified and are recorded only as Jane Doe. He beat them to death with a hammer or a baseball bat in motel rooms and at his house, dismembered the bodies, and put the parts out with the rubbish.
He was arrested on April 6, 1996 and confessed.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1999, one of a small number of men sentenced under New York's reinstated death penalty. After the New York Court of Appeals struck that statute down in 2004, he was resentenced to life without parole. He died in prison on April 13, 2006.
Two of the five have never been identified, which is recorded here because it is part of what the case documents: women could be killed and dismembered in the New York suburbs in the 1990s and never be reported missing by anyone.