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- The ME's examination of the body found in a Pennsylvania dump is inconclusive about whether or not it's the body of Monica Lozado-Rivadineira

The case of Monica Lozado-Rivaidneira gets odder and odder. The police said that Caesar Ascarrunz confessed to killing his Bolivian-born girlfriend in their Queens apartment, but now, while in lockup at Rikers, he is saying he never confessed. The police have written, taped, and oral confessions from Ascarrunz, which seem to counter Ascarrunz's claims. This may all be a part of Ascarrunz's attempts to create some sort of defense as he awaits court hearings.

- A fatal tanker fire on the Bruckner Expressway is causing delays for subways, Amtrak, and drivers

- Authorities are searching landfills in Pennsylvania in hopes of finding Monica Lozado-Rivaineiria's body

While it's a relief to have the four year old abandoned on a Queens street identified (her name is Valerie Lozado), the other news about where her mother was has met everyone's worst expectations: Monica Lozado-Rivaineira was killed by her boyfriend, Cesar Ascarrunz, who confessed the crime to the police. Ascarrunz says that he had "objected to her staying out all night and to the manner in which she was raising her daughter." On September 24, Lozado-Rivaineiria attacked him with a knife in their Forest Park, Queens apartment, and he tried to defend himself with a pillow, and then she went unconscious (reports say that authorities believe he strangled Lozado-Rivaineira). Ascarrunz said he slit her throat to "create an airway"; with Lozado-Rivaineiria dead, put her body in a trash bag outside the apartment. He dropped off Valery in another Queens neighborhood to be found by strangers, and then dumped the body in another neighborhood two days later. Ascarrunz, an immigrant who had been a doctor in Bolivia but was a porter in the U.S., was arraigned on various charges of murder and child endangerment.