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Police believe that Imette St. Guillen, the John Jay College graduate student who was murdered last Saturday, was probably targeted by a stranger. After confirming that St. Guillen was last at The Falls, a restaurant and bar on Lafayette Street just south of Spring (near the Andre Balazs Kenmare Square development, across the street from La Esquina) where she headed after the Pioneer Bar, witnesses say she left the restaurant alone. The current theory: A fake livery driver picked up St. Guillen around 4AM - especially considering how easy it seems to be to pose as a livery driver (just a few weeks ago a woman was assaulted by someone she thought was a livery driver). People in SoHo were surprised, with one resident told WABC: "It's surprising that this is something that happened in this part. Down Bowery and down Canal it gets sketchy." Well, unfortunately anything goes - just because a neighborhood is gentrified doesn't mean there isn't crime. Criminologists and experts have been weighing on all media outfits on the grisliness of the murder - and what it means about the killer - here's one look.

Police are searching in vain for clues in the murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen, who was last seen at a downtown bar 18 hours before her naked body was found in Brooklyn. They released images of the comforter she was found wrapped in, alongside Fountain Avenue, saying the Springmaid comforter is something one would find at a cheap motel, asking the public to call Crimestoppers (800-577-TIPS) with any clues. Police have ruled out St. Guillen's ex-boyfriend from Boston and a John Jay grad school classmate as suspects, leaving them with a few theories about what could have happened: She might have been attacked by someone on the street or by a cabby; she could have left with someone she met at a bar who she later tried to escape; or she was jumped by someone on the street. The police are hoping to find the person who made the 911 call that led them to St. Guillen's body; detectives think the person has some inside information because the body was in a very remote area that wasn't very accessible.

There are three strange deaths - two murders, one maybe murder - from this weekend: