True Crime Story Magazine on Instagram: "This Day in True Crime — December 31, 1984 Subway Vigilante Turns Himself In On December 31, 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz turned himself in to police after igniting a national firestorm for his self-described act of self-defense on the city’s subway. Goetz’s case became one of the most controversial examples of vigilante justice in modern American criminal history. On December 22, 1984, Goetz shot four Black men on a Manhattan subway car af