who actually committed the Central Park 5 case in the Central Park 5 case five black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. however in 2002 DNA evidence proved that the crime was committed by a serial rapist named Matthias Reyes who confessed to acting alone the Central Park five were exonerated and later received a settlement from the city of New York [Music] foreign