Human Remains on Fort Greene Park
Both the Daily News and Newsday are reporting that human remains were found in a box on Washington Park last night. The medical examiner has not released details on gender, age or ethnicity yet. According to a tipster, the dog walkers in Fort Greene Park were “buzzing” about the news this morning. Bad news for…
Both the Daily News and Newsday are reporting that human remains were found in a box on Washington Park last night. The medical examiner has not released details on gender, age or ethnicity yet. According to a tipster, the dog walkers in Fort Greene Park were “buzzing” about the news this morning. Bad news for this listing?
invisible…I guess it takes a bit of thought to commit the perfect crime!!!
“And I agree with TD, I live in Clinton Hill and I have every right to bitch about Housing Projects, I own my home, so in my not so humble opinion, I have a lot more say in the neighborhood than some freeloading project dwellers.
With the city about to start losing money due to rising housing costs and the flattening economy, it will be no time before they will start selling off housing projects in nicer neighborhoods. I can’t wait.
Yes, I am callus but I don’t care.”
You sound like a very nice person to live next to.
Apparently nobody reads (or remembers) the news here. Something like this happened a few years ago. Before everybody gets stereotypical about the neighborhood, someone who goes to great lengths to chop someone up and leave them in a box probably went to great lengths to leave it far from where they live.
NYT Article:
June 13, 2003
Police Say Man Admits Dumping Wife’s Headless Body in Harlem
By ROBERT F. WORTH
The police yesterday arrested a Queens man who they say has confessed to killing his wife late last month, cutting her head off with a handsaw and leaving her body in a suitcase on a Harlem street.
The man, Oscar Pilamunga, 24, kicked, punched and strangled his wife, Beatrice Yually, 23, on May 31 after she threatened to leave him for her boyfriend, a law enforcement official said.
The killing took place at the couple’s basement apartment in Corona, and Mr. Pilamunga then cut his wife’s head off with a handsaw, said Inspector James Luongo, the chief of the Manhattan detective bureau. The head has not been found, he said.
The day after the killing, Mr. Pilamunga put his wife’s headless body in a garbage bag, stuffed it into a suitcase and took it by taxi to Harlem, where he left it on West 124th Street around 4 p.m., the law enforcement official said. It is not clear how the body got to 130th Street and Lenox Avenue, where it was found by a passer-by about two hours later.
Investigators found a phone number on the body of Ms. Yually, Inspector Luongo said, and that led them to the couple’s house in Queens, where they found Mr. Pilamunga.
The couple, who have been married for nine years, are from Ecuador and have two children who live there. Mr. Pilamunga worked in the food industry, and his wife was a street vendor, the police said.
The couple seemed quiet and friendly, said Angelo Pacheco, who owns the apartment at 98-01 37th Avenue that Mr. Pilamunga and his wife rented for $500 a month. Dora Pacheco, Mr. Pacheco’s wife, said, ”I am going to bring the priest to bless the house.”
Mr. Pilamunga was expected to be arraigned last night on second-degree murder charges, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.
Wadser,
I do understand where you are coming from after your last post, and you do make a lot of sense. Yes the line was grossly stereotyping, but I have had it with the “Get out now or all y’all[sic] all will be dead” comments. I am tired of the crime that is perpetrated by some or perhaps many of the young people residing in the projects. I was at the Green Market on Saturday, which or course serves every different background of person in FG and CH, they had a poster board up to put a dot on of where you live, it was really interesting to see where there were no dots. The part of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill I enjoy has nothing and hopefully will not have anything to do with the North side of the park until it has changed.
Basically, I probably agree with a good deal of what you think (scary but true), but it has been proven time and time again, housing projects tend to breed excessive crime, and I don’t think anyone should have to be subjected to it no matter where they choose to live.
I just got off the phone with Quincy, he said he believes its, “Murrrderrrr”
I’d love to see this as a “Law and Order, Ripped From the Headlines” episode!!!! Lots of shots of nice Brooklyn brownstones, etc. Maybe a scene with a group of citizens at Union Hall.
Know who benefits most from gentrification, the auto glass repair shop.
I was making two different points, not stating that I thought you were saying this was projects related (point 1, not projects related, point 2 your stereotyping of residents of said projects is lame). You are correct that this doesn’t sound like the typical crime report from the Walt Whitman homes. But you are grossly wrong to refer to “freeloading project dwellers.” You must understand how ignorant and hateful that makes you sound. As a Clinton Hill resident, and a person fully in support of the gentrification of the neighborhood (in as much as that loaded word can be supported) I must take exception to your silly stereotyping. The reason why Clinton Hill and Fort Greene “work” as racially diverse neighborhoods is because, more than a lot of other parts of the city, these are neighborhoods where there are lots of genuine everyday interactions between people of differing economic strata and cultural/racial backgrounds. Out of hand dismissal of people who reside in public housing is propagating a negative stereotype that hurts the gentrification process.
That’s true, wasder. if this location is close to the projects, then basically all of brooklyn real estate is “close” to one project or another.