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Subscribe to RSSNEW YORK -- A 24-year-old man is suspected of killing his girlfriend and leaving her body in a barrel inside his Harlem apartment for several days, a law enforcement source said.
Police responded to a call about a foul smell coming from the apartment on 140th Street and Seventh Avenue and discovered the woman's body inside the container. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. Her identity has yet to be released.
According to the law enforcement source, the woman was planning on leaving her boyfriend to move to the Dominican Republic.
Her boyfriend is in custody at St. Lukes Hosptial under pyschiatric care. Police believe the woman may have been dead since Wednesday.
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What is with people today. Kill her and throw her in a barrel. How sick.
This is like that story from yesterday, where the guy poured perfume on his g/f and set her on fire.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE WOMEN?
I'm not blaming the woman certainly, but WHY do they stay with guys like these?
I don't believe for a moment that this was his first act of violence. Just his LAST..
Against her anyway.
My condolences to the family and friends of this young lady.
For the boyfriend..I hope he rots in hell.
The perfume incident happened near me and I was disgusted. Lack of opportunity caused by the "neo christian and anti everything teabaggers have some responsibility, but it is sure wrong anyway you look at it. As a Moderate Republican, I say the effects of the ultra extreme neocons that were bought off since Regan have the most responsibility. I would rather have a pot smoking progressive or moderate sitting in the White House than the drunken fascist clan that backed Hitler and the Nazis in pre WWII Germany. Hell, today, even Bush I could not get elected by the redneck GOP of today. My local US Rep, Mark Critz lost to a guy named Rothfus whose only claim was that he would oppose anything sound that the Dems suggested. His first claim to fame was NOT signing off on the Sandy Hurricane relief.
COG..this is not the responsiblity of Teabaggers or Neo cons or whoever else you want to blame,
The blame, first and last is on the SCUM who committed the act.
NO ONE ELSE.
Janine...apparently your ignorance is quite huge in your comments. You have never been through an abusive relationship, have you? Perhaps you should keep your mouth shut until you have walked in their shoes. It is very easy for women to become trapped in abusive relationships. Getting away is not so easy as you seem to think. How would you like it if someone threatened you, made you believe you were worthless and that no one else would care for you and law enforcement does little to protect despite the laws out there? I was in an abusive relationship that put me in the hospital twice. The police were of no help...because they did not witness him beating on me. The threats he made against me were enough to make me stay. I was in fear of losing my life regardless if I stayed or if I left him. It was only because I became friends with someone did it all come to an end for me. Someone else had to threaten him in order to get him to back off. I was never left alone for a couple of years because they believed he would try to find me. The police did nothing to protect me but the right friend that had the balls to take him on became my protector. Would you take someone in or be there for them 24/7 to see that she is safe from her abuser? My guess, no you would not.
@Julieann: You've got no right to admonish Janine. Step off.
Julieann, you know nothing about what I would do.
It is true that I have never been in such a relationship. I would not tolerate it. All it would take is a man hitting me once..and that would it be for me.
If a friend of mine needed help in such a situation, I would be there in a heart beat. So would my husband.
The problem with our country is tunnel vision mindless political robots who can spew vomit on a story that has nothing to do with politics. Congrats COG, you move to the pole position for the week.........
There is nothing in the article that states he was abusive before this terrible event. I am not naive, but isn't there a chance he flipped and killed her in the heat of the moment? They don't even know how she died yet. Odds are, those of you who think he was abusive toward her are correct, but there is still a slim chance he wasn't.
She was going to leave her boyfriend to move to the Dominican Republic; it doesn't say whether he was from the DR, but we seem to be seeing the DR mentioned in the news rather more than usual lately relative to murder and mutilation, usually involving sharp instruments, and storage of bodies in the home.
So far, no firearms have been mentioned.
RIP, young lady.
We need to outlaw barrels.
Who was killed by a barrel?
We need to put a barrel in every house to combat bad guys with barrels.
roll out the barrels and we will have a barrel full of fun.
Just leave my barrel of rum out of this.
If she worked as a custodian I think it would be safe to call her a janitor in a drum.
Ise guessen datz life in da ghetto.keep yo gulfrend in a barrel next ta da doe! no big loss!
We need to put a barrel in every house to combat bad guys with barrels.
Why do you make a jokes about someone being murdered and stuffed in a barrel? As a mother with a daughter this disturbs me to know end. It doesn't matter that this was in Harlem, she was somebody's child and she is dead. Can we show a little respect and compassion? My condolences to her family.
My daughter was killed and stuffed in a sink cabinet 30 years ago, yet the scumbag STILL walks free, ONLY IN AMERICA. No gun was involved you nongun rights nuts.
@ Roger, I never mentioned a gun one way or the other in my comment. I was asking for compassion for someone's murdered daughter, because as the mother of a daughter, I was saddened about what happened.
And my condolences for your loss. Why is the person not in prison?
he fled the country while out on bail, it is now a cold case ....did I mention he WAS the brother of a cop?
my gun rights quip was not directed at you personally....it was directed to the librenda.
@Roger/gallahad, I hate to question someone who claims a loved one has been killed, but on behalf of gallahad123, I wonder. Roger you've made subsequent comments, joking around about this rather sick scenario, that lead me to wonder whether you are fabricating something about a daughter being stuffed in a sink. If that were the case, wouldn't you be showing a little more reverence and respect? This woman was someone else's daughter...if your story were true, I would have to think that you would be impacted in a very emotionally powerful and solemn manner. Regardless, you need to temper your remarks and per gallahad's point, just gain a sense of decency that isn't surprising you are missing - so many people have lost their sense of reality - everything is a movie or a video game until it actually happens to them or they do it to someone else. We are unable to empathize anymore - and thus we get comments like yours.
society has made me this way, what can I say?
don't like what you see, then CHANGE society.
and YES my story is true and my compassion is gone, did I mention it was 30 years ago, I have gotten over it and through it, get a life, I got mine back.
@roger----- If it was my daughter, and I only have one. They could not run,and they could not hide. I don't give a damn if he was the brother of of GOD. I think your story SUCKS BIG BALLS.
wow, this comment is coming from a woman? notice I didn't say "lady".
You can talk tough all you want there marywhatever but you can't beat city hall my friend.
besides I LIKE MY FREEDOM
Roger is one of those people who can't help themselves and make up whatever they want to fit whatever situation they want it to fit. I put him on ignore awhile back just for that reason. LOL, bet he is posting something about me now or already has. He can't stand it that he is on ignore. His drama can't reach anyone then.
As far as how this girl died, in the end everyone dies. Some in their sleep, some by a bus, and some in a barrel. Not sure how I will go, but one thing is for certain, sooner or later I will find out. This is why death doesn't bother me, it's a part of life. So lighten up a bit.
brenda - might as well live life to the fullest...after all, it's not like we're going out alive...
True dat.
Start spreadn' the news!
if he is a black guy he was just trying to create a barrel of monkeys....hahahaha
if he is a white guy he was creating a cracker barrel...lol
any other nationality.....he was creating some dumbyoungsoup....
1st off, what was this guy doing with that big of a barrel in HIS APARTMENT? I mean after the whole Jeffery Dohmer thing any body seen bringing that big of a barrel into his apartment should raise RED FLAGS with other tenants, at least you'd think it would.
I don't know much about people storing dead bodies in barrels but the stuff I DO know about it, usually means to me that this wasn't the first time the guy killed someone. Theres usually more than one victim when the guy starts with the barrels...
c'mon thats ridiculous, young people use them barrels for tables in their apartments, who knows, they could have a micro brewery in their apartment? barrel=serial killer....what a joke.
Roll out the barrel! Roll out a Barrel of fun! Drum 1 up this this guy.
Polka Rap? I don't wan't her you can have her bitch too fat for me. Sorry couldn't resist.
Police were called because of a foul smell and they need to mention she was pronounced dead on the scene?!?!?!?
This is just an other ugly murder, such as happens all too frequently in the U.S..
I had predicted as "systems fail, support for people dwindle, communities disappear, economic woes increase, families fall apart or become distant, jealousy, greed and desires increase, expectations go up, employers' demands go up or gets punitive...psychological problems will increase, and rejections and aloneness become unbearable for some!"
There is a movie where an aging man tells the neighbor, who is his only friend and lover, "I have nothing. If you leave me I'll either kill myself or you and then myself! You give me hope, you give me some attention and you give me a reason to wake up everyday and try and live!"
She gets tired of his neediness, clinginess and his possessiveness...and she leaves. He struggles for a few months...alone, lonely and miserable. Then happily one day...he kills himself.
Older people are going to kill themselves, and younger ones are going to killing others. Of course if you are rich, or super rich, you can kill everybody these days with weapons, wars, chemicals, financial ruin, lying, deception, manipulation, scams, organized cons, etc.
Welcome to the future of the United States of Awesomia & Awfulia
You predicted all this? You, you are like a modern day Nostradamus, man. Don't say any more, I'm freaking out.
It doesn't take a prophet to predict this type of societal deterioration.
We must ban barrels. If he did not have a barrel, he would not have killed her. Seriously now....why do things like this appear to only happen in liberal states? Or at least only reported occuring in liberal states?
Because the women in red leech states can't fit inside a barrel.
Hank, while I don't agree with what you said, I have to say I got a reflexive laugh out of it.
I just figured a stupid answer to a stupid question was appropriate. I don't agree with what I said myself.
Totally.
I'm hoping this is just a sarcastic jab.
They happen less often because the women in "red" states are more likely to be carrying! You feel lucky, punk? - just try slappin' the little woman!
Red states actually allow their women to defend themselves.
She can still go back, by FedEx!!
ouch, nice one.
Maybe instead of banning barrels, Nanny Bloomberg should just ban Harlem and have it torn down to make way for his palatial now performance stage. I hear he has taken up the violin.
Naah - he is working on a new law to ban barrels bigger than ten gallons. All you New Yorkers, ain't it wonderful to have someone to do all your thinking for you - gives you so much more time per day that you can praise his wonderful love and power!
I thought he had taken up the fiddle.
These "bad smell" calls never turn out good.
These "bad smell" calls never turn out good.
How do people stutter in complete sentences?
Again, the work of the media to reshape a story as they see fit. He stored her body in a Cracker Barrel! She died eating their crappy sausages and he stored her somewhere in the building.
If only one of the patrons would have had an AR-15, things might have gone differently.
to Janine -
I said the same thing - any man ever hit me and I was gone. And I meant it! But he knew not to strike me. Verbal abuse sneaks up on you sometimes. When it starts, you don't even recognize it for what it is. It was a joke at your expense, then it seems like everything that ever goes wrong is your fault. It is not always financially possible to pack up the kids and leave to start over. And then there is the utter conviction after years of being told repeatedly what a failure you are and how you could never make it alone.... and you are no longer just trying to walk away from the abuser but the indoctrination you've exposed yourself to for years. I own it. I am blessedly out. It was just as much he77 leaving as it was living it. I don't expect you to understand how difficult it was. I would ask you to please not dismiss how difficult it was.
I strongly believe in the death penalty. Of course, pulling the insanity plea is the favorite of all attorneys.
Get them out of society for good, and the death penalty is the only way. There isn't anyway, that this would have been the only time of violence for this person.
Just recycle the barrel - catch the perp, put him in and lock the lid on. When you get another smell complaint, just put the barrel out by the curb for pickup.
People argue the death penalty is too expensive, which is horse@!$%#. One piece of rope or one lead bullet is cheap.
Whatever happened to breaking up and moving on ??????
That's so 90s.
Oh yeah..if the kid were gay or something, the libs would be all over this, wouldn't they? So selective with outrage & emotion. If ONLY the kid were in some narrow demographic group that could be exploited!.......
Please excuse previous post which was for the 12yr old bullying victim who died. (the marvel of modern computers places the scroll down bar adjacent to the "newer story" link).
What the boyfriend did was heinous, disgusting and very psychotic. I hope that the police get all of the info real soon and put her to rest. I know that it takes a while to get to the bottom of a case but the police in this matter should hasten it up a bit.