The woman , found deceased stuffed in a bag bag , in the drawer of the Manhattan house she was staying in was killed by a pair of tenants who had taken up residence it, authorities said Thursday.
The murders, who are still on the move, escaped in prey Nadia Vitels ‘ aircraft, which was found crashed and abandoned in Pennsylvania, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Vitels was getting the house on E. 31st St. near Third Ave. in Kips Bay prepared for another sibling to live in when she stumbled across the few squatting it, Kenny says.
Around the same moment Vitels was killed, the squatters threw her belongings down the garbage hose, arising the fear of the victim’s subsequent- entrance neighbor who has access to the same chute.
” There’s a garbage hose in the room. They threw garments and baggage over there”, the house’s excellent, Jean Pompee, told the Daily News. ” The police stopped us from looking because it was a murder field”.
” The duffel bag that she was in, it was n’t so big”, he added. ” I thought it’d be a great handbag. It was very little with zippers. I’m just guessing, but I think they may have thought about throwing her down the hose. The hose falls down to the basement, and there’s a shredder in the room”.
Officers are searching for the tenant partners, believed to be in their 20s, in Pennsylvania after discovering Vitels crashed aircraft it.
After never hearing from her for some time, Vitels ‘ home headed to the device around 4: 30 p. m. March 14.
” Her brother and the two in- rules looked around”, said Pompee.
By the time rescuers showed up, the family had found the bag case in the bedroom.
” ( One of the in- laws ) immediately pointed to the closet and said,’ Can you please open this bag. I believe that there’s a figure in it,'” the very recalled.
Vitels finished moving into the house on March 12 and was killed the following morning. Her relatives had lived in the building decades earlier, said the big.
Pompee watched security video from the building that captured the tenant couple coming and going.
” The film shows them around on Sunday night. The last time they saw]Vitels ] on the video was Tuesday”.
The big said the pair left the building Tuesday and returned the same day wearing disposable gloves and carrying bag.
” It’s really tragic, you know. I hope that they catch them”, said Pompee. ” I need some closure for this. I do n’t know if there’s anything I could’ve done. If I knew she was moving in, I would’ve been on the lookout for her”.
An autopsy revealed Vitels died from , blunt force trauma to the brain, the state’s Medical Examiner said March 15, ruling her death a crime.
Inside the residence, officers found signs of a battle, including a cracked and damaged sheetrock walls that the woman’s head was include struck, police sources said.
At , Vitels ‘ Long Island funeral , on Monday, she was remembered by her brother, Michael Medvedev, as a doting family who had lived a vibrant adventurous career and was embarking on a new book.
” Getting ready to move to New York City where she would conquer the world”, he remarked. ” She was so excited to move into the town”.
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