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Police now say that the John Jay School of Criminal Justice graduate student was gang-raped before being strangled to death and dumped on a Brooklyn road. The last contact with 24 year old Imette St. Guillen was a call she made to one of her friends at 3AM Saturday morning; 911 received a tip about a body at 8:43PM that night. Police have been retracing St. Guillen's stepsPioneer Bar on Bowery, in order to figure out if she'd been seen at any other bars or if surveillance cameras captured her - the mystery being how she ended up 9 miles away in Brooklyn, especially with her home on the Upper West Side.
The Post says the police have dusted the payphone at a diner on Linden Boulevard for prints - they think this is where the 911 call may have been made. The Daily News has gruesome details about how she was found, with the murderer "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."
St. Guillen's family has been moving her belongings from her apartment. She would have turned 25 on Thursday. And the co-ed angle of this case reminds Gothamist of the horrible 2003 kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of Ramona Moore, whose attackers are on trial now.
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This is really scary. I hope they find the evil, evil perpetrators. What a horrible story.
Very sad. I looked up her Friendster profile to see what she was like. There's not much there though. I believe this is it...
http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=9802892
I'm so sad for her and her family.
Interesting that all these incidents are happening at Bowery Bars.
Guess, the Bowery hasn't changed much.
How many times have I and my friends done the same exact thing? It is so goddamn tragic and depressing. That poor, poor girl and her family - to know that she died in pain and in fear has got to be the most horrible thing. I am completely freaked out by the fact that a group of people did this - who up and decides to do that?
How many times have I and my friends done the same exact thing - just wandered away from a bar late at night? It is so goddamn tragic and depressing. That poor, poor girl and her family - to know that she died in pain and in fear has got to be the most horrible thing. I am completely freaked out by the fact that a group of people did this - who up and decides to do that?
This is a terrible story and can only pray that the criminals who did this are caught soon. I must also ponder the fact that the coroner determined that she was intoxicated and that her friends left her alone at the last bar where they had been together.
It is an unfortunate fact that lone women can be vulnerable to crime. Add a seedy neighborhood and judgment impaired by alcohol and you are asking for tragedy. Even an intoxicated man who is all alone is more likely to suffer a mugging than one who's not. I hurt just thinking that had her friends not left her, in all probability she would be alive today.
The unfortunate thing is that people need to stick with friends if possible - you really can't trust anyone. I wonder if she was kidnapped firts.
Find the guy(s) that did this; castrate them with a dull butter knife; then get medieval on their asses...
This is so freaking scary. THe victim was also studying criminal justice and forensics and probably was going to be a CSI, now CSI's are looking over her body. I swear to god this was an episode of CSI too. FREAKY!
I was a senior at Latin when she was a freshman. This is indescribably upsetting.
It's upsetting because this still happens.
Tell people where you are going and who you are with. If your senses tell you not to go, don't go.
Nothing is ever good when they find you on the belt parkway.
I am horrified at this senseless crime. My deepest sympathies to the victim's family. Does anyone know info about a memorial service or wake? I'm sure many city residents would like to express their condolences on this incredibly tragic event.
As with the recent murders of the NYPD's officers and now stronger penalties for the criminals who choose to kill cops, rapists and child molestors need stronger sentencing.
It is my firm belief that a rapist or child molestor should be jailed for life, No parole.
These people are very sick individuals and cannot rehabilitate. Again, there is no such thing as a rehabilitated rapist or pedophile.
On a side note: They hardly deserve rights at all, but in a Nation of Democratic Justice, they are granted certain rights in a court of law. However, their only rights should be to exist behind bars, like the monsters they have chosen to be.
Fuck them all!!! They will not be missed.
Women HAVE TO start using more common sense: I'm not saying she deserved what happened to her, but you don't go drinking for hours and hang out alone in bars after your friends have gone home. She started drinking at 10pm and she was still drinking at 4am! KNOW when to say enough. KNOW to stick with your friends. Imette used bad judgement. Young women think they're Carrie Bradshaw, cavorting around NYC in stillettos without a care in the world. I hope all the other women who hear this story are more careful and show better judgement, but how quickly young women forget...remember Natalee Holloway?
Has anyone investigated the possibility that one or more of John Jay College students committed the heinous crime of murdering Immette St. Guillen ? Perhaps the motive would be to set up a real crime students would try to solve and that the murder or murders belive can not be solved.
Have to agree with ABC girl. Of course she did not deserve even an iota of what happened, but a young woman alone & drunk at 4am? C'mon if she was such a wonderful intelligent student, she should have behaved more responsibly.
The comments I've read that Immette contributed to her horrible torture and death by being drunk and alone saddens me. I guess there are people out there that have never been drunk, never had their judgement impaired by drinking or never put themselves in a bad situation because of drinking and I guess they can claim moral superiority. However, that is not most young people. So before you judge Immette, think about times you have been drunk, times you have walked home alone and times you have put yourself in potentially dangerous situations and realize that you not ending up like Immette is simply the luck of the draw. It could've happened to any of us.