Woman Found Dead in Soho Apartment

Police are investigating the death of a woman found in her apartment. A roommate of the 36-year-old woman found her alone in the Crosby Street (at Grand) apartment - with two stab wounds. The roommate had been away over the Labor Day weekend and apparently neighbors had noticed a smell.

WABC 7 reports, "No one in the neighborhood seems to know the victim who was reportedly staying with an ex-boyfriend after having issues with a more recent boyfriend." Plus, police also say that there were no signs of forced entry.

The Post reports that the boyfriend is suspected: "The boyfriend had been arrested several weeks earlier for allegedly stabbing the woman in the neck with a samurai sword, claiming she had given him AIDS. " The victim's boyfriend was released from jail in early August because the Manhattan DA's office could not get an indictment. Newsday reports that the prosecutors weren't able to get the victim to come in and testify.

And Newsday adds that roommate found a previous roommate dead from a drug overdose in the apartment last June.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 6, 2007 7:43 AM

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guest

you sick bunch of idiots. i know this woman since she was a little girl and even if she has made some bad choices in life how dare you make light of something like this!!!!!! She was someone's daughter, someone's sister and many peoples' friend. But for the grace of God it could be happening to any one of us.

kadeedy

Question: You have a maniacal ex-boyfriend who has already tried to kill you with a samurai sword, and who is knocking at your door. Your roommate is away, and you are completely alone. What do you do?

Hmmm....

guest

Samurai sword people. This is cost and consequence of geeks becoming confident. Keep them down!

guest

no because it was she who picked another winner and won. probably a guy who had the guts or bravado to approach her on the streets of nyc.

Dufresne was a victim of "beer guts". she wrote checks her body can't cash.

guest

Would "Dufresne's Corpse" like to comment...?

guest

Another whore dead in the city? Good thing there's still plenty to go around...hehe

guest

Dead white chicks rule...Woo Hoo!

guest

That's what ya get for sleeping around you whores...

guest

Another white hipster chick dead in the city? Yaawwnn....

guest

corny

get

lives

schadenfreudian mensch

Lenny Kravitz wouldn't happened to be the ex-boyfriend?

guest

The best part of this story is apparently, the roommate came home several years ago to his dead girlfriend.

I would start looking at the roommate first!!!!