WABC radio newsman George Weber found stabbed to death at home
Taggart for News Authorities remove the body of George Weber from his Brooklyn home on Sunday. ABC News Radio/AP Longtime New York radio reporter George Weber (right, with Mayor Bloomberg) was found stabbed to death on Sunday.
Longtime New York radio newsman George Weber was found stabbed to death in his Brooklyn apartment Sunday morning, cops said.
The bloody body of Weber, a passionate fan of the city who spent a decade doing local news on WABC morning radio, was found just after 9 a.m. when he didn't show up for work.
"I used to hear his voice in the top and the bottom of the hour. It's a voice New Yorkers know. Now that voice has been silenced," said Aaron Katersky, 33, an ABC colleague who found himself covering a friend's murder.
Weber, 47, was freelancing at ABC's national radio network after being laid off last year.
Cops believe Weber was killed Friday evening. He was found in bed with stab wounds in the neck and chest, cops said.
Police were investigating the possibility he was killed by a male date.
There was no sign of forced entry to his first-floor brownstone apartment on Henry St. in Carroll Gardens, cops said.
The front door was locked, but a back door was unlocked. The apartment had been ransacked, though it was not clear what, if anything, was taken.
The murder weapon was not recovered.
Weber would have celebrated his 48th birthday Monday.
Curtis Sliwa, who did a 5 a.m. "pre-show" with Weber for eight years at WABC before the regular "Curtis & Kuby" morning show, called his death "a tremendous loss."
"News ran through his veins and arteries 24 hours a day," Sliwa said.
"He wasn't a rip-and-read newsman. He wanted to be there," he said. "And you know what his trick was? He'd pack up his dog, Noodles, a dachshund, and walk him there. People would see the dog, they'd pet the dog, they'd get a level of comfort with him. And then he could get them to talk."
Noodles died a few years ago.
Weber told the Daily News last year that he had turned down a job in California because he didn't want to leave New York.
"Brooklyn's my home. I like being the news guy here," he said.
Calling himself "the news guy," Weber maintained a lively blog. His last entry, a rant about his battles with bedbugs, was posted Friday.
He made his daily visit to his regular bar, the Blarney Rock on W, 33rd St., as usual on Friday afternoon.
"He seemed fine," said the waitress who saw him.
Patrons and staff at the bar, where Weber was such a fixture that his picture hangs on the wall, were stunned to hear of his murder.
"He was like family here," said weekend manager James Donovan. "George Web, dead? I can't believe it. He was one of the sweetest guys I've ever met."
Waitress Andrea Tierney was baffled. "He didn't have any enemies. None at all," she said. "Who could want to kill him?"
According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), George Weber, a longtime radio reporter for WABC in New York City, was found dead with several stab wounds to his body yesterday morning at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 47 years old, and would have turned 48 today. The NYPD has confirmed Weber's death as a homicide and are waiting results from yesterday's autopsy which should come in later today.

Weber worked for WABC for 12 years, appearing on such shows as ''Curtis and Kuby'', giving news updates for listeners at the top and bottom of every hour. After he was laid off by the station last year due to a change in programing, he was working as a freelance reporter for ABC News Radio, a national network. In his career before WABC, he worked for KTLK and KMPC, located in Los Angeles, California and KGO in San Fransisco, California.

"We are shocked and deeply saddened by the death of our colleague and friend George Weber, who was the victim of what police have deemed a homicide at his home in Brooklyn. An investigation has been launched by NYPD and we have been assisting them. Our condolences and prayers go out to George's family and friends at this very difficult time. He really loved news radio and enjoyed being on the air and enjoyed the connection he had with his listeners. He also loved Brooklyn and his neighborhood," said Steve Jones, the vice president of ABC News Radio in a statement released to the media.

Currently, the NYPD thinks that Weber was killed Friday while in bed. They are looking into the possibility that he was stabbed to death by a date, as there were no signs of a break-in into the apartment, and the front door was locked. The NYPD could not retrieve the weapon used in the homicide.

"News ran through his veins and arteries 24 hours a day. He wasn't a rip-and-read newsman. He wanted to be there," said Curtis Sliwa, who worked with Weber as a co-host at WABC, "And you know what his trick was? He'd pack up his dog, Noodles, a dachshund, and walk him there. People would see the dog, they'd pet the dog, they'd get a level of comfort with him. And then he could get them to talk."