The estranged husband of an Upper West Side wealth manager who was found strangled to death on New Year's Eve 2009 has never been formally charged in her death—but he has now been hit with a wrongful-death suit by her estate. Roderick Covlin, a former trader who founded the U.S. Backgammon Federation, has been accused in the suit of murdering Shele Danishefsky Covlin. Public Administrator Ethel Griffin, who handles estate complications, alleges Covlin “intentionally, deliberately, willfully, wantonly, maliciously, brutally and without provocation or just cause did strangle, choke, strike, injure, assault, abuse, beat and murder” his wife. more ›

After the horrifying discovery of a woman's body stuffed into a suitcase left on East 114th Street across from Thomas Jefferson Park (a passer-by noticed a foot sticking out early yesterday morning), surveillance video has emerged of a man dragging a suitcase down the very same street. The video (below) shows a man walking down the street, pulling the suitcase, but then pauses a few times as people walk by or to wipe his face. The person who provided the video told the Post, "He's got a body in his suitcase and he's just standing there like nothing's going on. I freaked out when I saw that... It's f--ked up. [He's] just standing there." more ›

Earlier this week, police found the naked body of Nina Rivera under a pile of leaves in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. An autopsy revealed that Rivera had been strangled to death, and police are investigating the homicide. Rivera, who will be buried by family tomorrow, had undergone a very tough life, which included four strokes, the most recent of which left her partially paralyzed. Although doctor's said she wouldn't be able to have kids with her condition, she was able to raise a 6-year-old son. "In spite of all the conditions she had, she was so strong - her heart, her mind. This is a young lady who suffered from medical issues her whole life, and for her to go this way is just horrific," said her aunt Evelyn Rivera. more ›

The 911 call made by the mother of a man accused of murder was played in court yesterday. Dorcas Chin, whose son Michael Chin Lenahan who killed his girlfriend in a Chinatown apartment and left her corpse in her bed for days in 2007, told an operator, "I just found a body in my son's room." more ›

After an exhumation showed Shele Danishefsky Covlin was strangled to death on New Year's Eve, cops are planning to arrest her estranged husband for her murder. Her death, initially thought to be caused by an accidental slip in the bathtub, came a day before she was allegedly planning to remove husband Rod Covlin from her will. A friend of Shele's told the Post she told him "more than once that 'he threatened to kill me.'" Rod Colvin reportedly had no response when a reporter asked him if he killed his wife, and cops plan to arrest the chairman of the US Backgammon Federation later this week. more ›

After not hearing from her for two days, the worried parents of a 26-year-old woman went to her West Brighton apartment and found her dead. The Staten Island Advance reports Caroline Wimmer was "beaten nearly beyond recognition and apparently strangled with an electrical cord" of a hair dryer. more ›