Results tagged “missingperson”

A family from North Carolina has come up to New York in search of 19-year-old Erica Desai, who has been missing since January 20th—but some are speculating that she may just be AWOL. Desai was dropped off at her St. John's dorm on Utopia Parkway by her cousin after getting picked up from LaGuardia following her return home for the semester break. That was the last time she was seen. Her ATM card was used the next day to withdraw $150 from a midtown ATM. Surveillance tape shows the card being used by a woman that CBS-2 says is "obviously of Indian descent" (like Erica) along with an older black male. Her family swears that it can't be her. Her uncle said, "It was not her, it was somebody else. Well, we saw the video and somebody else withdraw the money from her account." Desai had just been expelled from school last month.

A Bronx neighborhood was shocked by the discovery of human remains on the roof of an apartment building. Acting on a family's missing person report for their daughter, the police headed to an apartment on Marion Avenue in the afternoon and found blood in the bathroom. Then, WCBS 2 reports, "Police found [a] woman's burned body on the roof, there was no attempt to conceal it and that the arms and legs of the unidentified victim had been cut off and removed from the scene. So far, the limbs have not been recovered by crime scene technicians." It is feared the missing woman, Paulemont Manuella, and the murder victim are the same person. The police took the missing woman's boyfriend in for, per NY1, violating an order of protection against Manuella. One resident told NY1, "I'm sad. Something like that shouldn't happen to any human being. Regardless of how much you despise them or have problems or relationship issues or whatever."