Re: Grisly slaying of Boston native stuns NY cops
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- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:18:01 -0500
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City beauty slain by beast
Tortured & dumped by road
By VERONIKA BELENKAYA and ALISON GENDAR
New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally published on February 27, 2006
Cordoned-off Brooklyn street where Imette St. Guillen's brutalized and
bound body was left.
She was a graduate student with brains to match her beauty who came to
New York to study criminal justice - but wound up the victim of an
unspeakably horrible murder.
A monster tortured vivacious Imette St. Guillen - brutally raping her,
chopping her dark hair and stuffing a tube sock down her throat. Then
he wrapped her face in tape and dumped her nude, bound body off a
Brooklyn road.
The clear, plastic tape left the 24-year-old John Jay College of
Criminal Justice student's pretty face frozen in a haunting expression
of horror that shocked even hardened investigators - and made her
virtually unrecognizable to her family, sources said.
"It looks like she died in excruciating pain," said a source who saw
the gruesome morgue photographs - also shown to the victim's sister,
who had the grim task of identifying St. Guillen's battered corpse
yesterday. "It seems a crime of passion," said another source. "Someone
wanted to make her suffer and diminish her beauty."
The dean's list student and Boston native, who would have turned 25 on
Thursday, was spotted at 3:30 a.m. Saturday as she and a female pal
argued outside the Pioneer Bar on the Bowery.
St. Guillen wanted to stay, at least until the hot spot's 4 a.m.
closing time. But her friend wanted to leave, and did.
Sources said last night St. Guillen was later captured on videotape
leaving the bar with another woman. She was apparently intoxicated and
may have gone to another bar, the sources said. The upper West Side
woman's corpse was found about 8:20 p.m. on a weeded section of
Fountain Ave. off the Belt Parkway in East New York.
Her face, from her forehead to chin, was covered with vertical strips
of clear packing tape. Her hands were tied behind her back, ankles
bound, and a floral quilt wrapped her petite frame.
Her body told the tale of heartless torture: She had marks on her chest
and her genitals were lacerated, sources said, adding that she also had
been raped and sodomized. The city's medical examiner ruled she had
been suffocated - someone pressed on her windpipe while her mouth and
nose were covered. Investigators were analyzing body fluids recovered
from the young woman's body, hoping for DNA evidence, sources said.
"It has to be absolutely horrific for her mother and sister, so many
gruesome details," said Cornelia Kelley, headmaster of the prestigious
Boston Latin School, from which St. Guillen graduated in 1999. "They
will never get over this."
Police spent yesterday interviewing St. Guillen's friends at Brooklyn's
75th Precinct stationhouse. Cops also questioned a former boyfriend in
Boston, but let him go, sources said.
An anonymous male 911 caller tipped authorities to the location of the
body. "Whoever did this thought they picked a good, desolate spot to
get rid of the body. Luckily, she was found," a police source said.
St. Guillen's older sister Alejandra drove from Boston, where she and
her mother, Maureen, live, to identify the body.
Imette St. Guillen was set to graduate from John Jay after this
semester. The George Washington University grad enrolled at John Jay in
2004 to pursue a master's degree in forensic psychology. Last fall, she
changed her principal field of study to criminal justice. "There are no
words to express the deep sadness and sense of loss that we, of the
John Jay College community, feel," said President Jeremy Travis.
With Austin Fenner and Tanyanika Samuels
What a horribly disgusting way to die. And I guess the 'tape over her face'
blocking her vision is of no consequence, being that the tape was clear.
td
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