In a case that drew international attention, he prosecuted the killers of a young Utah tourist slain in a subway station in 1990.

In 1990, after the much-publicized murder of a Utah tourist on a subway platform, Gissler dispatched a reporter and photographer to do a series about New York's evils.

The story was inspired by a summerlong series of highly publicized crimes in the city, culminating in the subway stabbing death of a Utah tourist.

It has claimed the lives of several children, as well as the life of a Utah tourist who was visiting the city for the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

The parents of Brian Watkins, the 22-year-old Utah tourist slain last year, returned to New York yesterday for the dedication of a tennis center named in honor of their son.

The second of three trials for the 1990 killing of a Utah tourist in a mid-Manhattan subway station is to open tomorrow in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

The search for the killers of a Utah tourist on Sunday night had become what one detective would later describe as "the classic needle in the haystack situation.

In 1990, Brian Watkins, a Utah tourist, was murdered at a 53rd Street subway station.

Seven days earlier, a Utah tourist was killed trying to defend his family from a group of robbers in a midtown subway station.

- David G. Hansen, a neighbor of the Utah tourist killed in the subway.