The police were gone from 206 East 31st Street on Friday evening, but the mystery lingers.
Josh EinigerJosh Einiger has the latest on the investigation after a woman's body was found stuffed inside a duffel bag in her Manhattan apartment.The police were gone from 206 East 31st Street on Friday evening, but the mystery lingers - along with the fear, amid word the suspicious death of the woman in Apartment 19A has officially, been ruled a homicide.
"I've been here 22 years. We've never had an incident like this," said building superintendent Jean Pompee.grisly discovery of Nadia Vitel, 52, who was stuffed in a duffel bag in a closetPompee says he helped her son and other family members enter the apartment after they could not reach her. Once inside, they spotted the duffel bag and called the fire department.
"And he directed them to the closet cause all the clothes had been pulled down. And he said there was a bag underneath it and he said, 'uh can you open the bag because I believe there's a body in there. They did, and they acknowledged that there was and they called the police," said Pompee.The story seems to start on Sunday when the super says cameras outside and inside capture two suspicious men going in and out, up and down from the 19th floor, seeming to wait for the victim.
Shortly after that, also on Wednesday, the two men left for the last time. Cameras capture them exiting the building and walking to Vitel's car, which was parked on 31st Street - they got in and drove away. Mariana Stojkovic lives a few doors down from the crime scene, and she says she heard unusual banging from the trash chute.Police spent all night Thursday and much of the day on Friday sifting through trash and collecting surveillance video, which so far they have elected not to release - as they try to piece together a murder mystery in 19A.
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