A woman was brutally beaten to death when she went to her late mother’s apartment in Manhattan and found two squatters living there.
After they murdered the woman they stuffed her inside a duffel bag, where she was later found by her son.
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Two squatters sought in murder of NYC mom found stuffed in duffle bag: cops https://t.co/xWXzPSyGVI pic.twitter.com/5EYp0ZlHqv
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Two squatters are being sought over the gruesome murder of a 52-year-old woman whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag inside her late mother’s upscale Manhattan apartment last week, police said Thursday.
The victim, Nadia Vitel, was savagely beaten by the two perps when she discovered them holed up inside the 19th-floor apartment on East 31st Street last week, according to cops.
Having just flown in from Spain, Vitel had gone to her late mom’s apartment — which had been vacant for roughly three to four months — to start prepping it so a family friend could move in.
“We believe that some squatters took the apartment over and this woman came home … and walked in on the squatters that were there,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
The brutal beatdown left Vitel with blunt force trauma to the head, multiple facial fractures, a brain bleed and two broken ribs, cops said.
The perps — who the NYPD haven’t identified publicly — were captured on surveillance video fleeing the apartment after the slaying and making off in the dead woman’s Lexus SUV.
They fled across the George Washington Bridge through New Jersey to Pennsylvania, where they ultimately crashed the SUV in Lower Paxton Township, cops said.
The NYPD wasn’t alerted until the following day, though, because Pennsylvania cops didn’t immediately run the plates and see that the vehicle was wanted in a homicide, Kenny said.
Cops said the squatters, who remained on the lam Thursday, had visited several local car dealerships in the aftermath of the wreck to try and buy a new car for $1,000.
These squatters likely wouldn’t have even been in this upscale apartment had it not been for these ridiculous laws giving them rights after thirty days. It’s absurd what’s going on in these Democrat strongholds now and, horrifically, this woman paid with her life. The question is if the people of New York City will rise up and do something about these terrible laws.