A New York woman’s son was so horrified that he called police after discovering his mother’s body stuffed in a duffel bag in her new apartment, but the two were then seen driving away in her car, police said. .
Nadia Vitels, 52, passed out inside her bag on East 31st Street in Manhattan at around 4:29 p.m. last Thursday, the New York City Police Department told Fox News Digital. He was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene.
A New York medical examiner determined the Russian-born man’s cause of death was blunt force trauma, the New York Daily News reported. Her manner of death is being investigated as a homicide.
“Beautiful, young, smart and Russian, she was the perfect candidate,” a city coroner’s office official told the magazine.
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Nadia Vitels, 52, was found dead inside a duffel bag in her new Manhattan apartment on Thursday, March 14th. (Nadia Vitels/Facebook)
When worried relatives did not hear from her after 48 hours, police confirmed the discovery and requested a welfare check. Vitels’ son, Michael Medvedev, said he discovered the duffel bag under a coat in the woman’s closet when he was asked to look around the building. New York Post.
The newspaper reported that the woman’s son saw his legs sticking out of the bag as he took off his clothes.
Jan Pompey, the property manager, told the Daily News that Vitels’ family knew something was wrong when she opened the apartment door and her small dog was inside, unattended. said.
“When I opened the door, there was a dog. [and] “The dog was alone. She wasn’t going to leave him alone,” Pompey told the magazine.
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Nadia Vitels was originally from Russia before moving to the United States for education and was ready to start a new life after her son became an adult, her family said. (Nadia Vitels/Facebook)
“He was her next obsession, her best friend, her man. He was the only man she needed,” Vitels’ son said, according to the Daily News. She said this while remembering that her mother’s parents passed away last year. “This little puppy gave her the love she needed to get through her most difficult time in her life.”
Pompey said one of the slain women’s relatives noticed the prominent duffel bag and begged responding police to open it.
”[One of the relatives] I immediately pointed to the closet and said, “Can you open this bag for me?” We believe there is a body there,” Pompey said, the Daily News reported.
Police sources told the New York Post that two black men and women, both in their 20s, were spotted getting into Vitels’ Lexus with New York plates and driving west from the apartment. It is said that he was caught there.
A police source told the program that the alarm in the car went off when they left the scene.
The NYPD confirmed Tuesday that no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
Sources told the Post that Vitels was preparing to move into his apartment the Sunday before his death. Her surveillance camera footage showed her repeatedly entering and exiting the building that day with a bag containing her belongings.
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On Thursday, March 14, 2024, forensic investigators responded after a woman’s body was discovered in an apartment at 206 East 31st Street in New York City. (Gardiner Anderson, NY Daily News, via Getty Images)
A black man and woman were seen entering her apartment just after 2 p.m. Sunday, sources told the Post. Vitels was last seen entering the apartment around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The two unnamed individuals were last seen on tape exiting the building that same evening around 5:45 p.m.
Vitels grew up in Moscow and later moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma, for college, his son said at Monday’s funeral, the Daily News reported.
After attending graduate school in Miami, she took a job as a marketing executive for a nonprofit organization, then joined camera company Canon and mobile phone company Nokia. She loved tennis and she ran tennis star Maria Sharapova’s candy line, the Daily News reported.
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“Every birthday, my mom woke up at 5 a.m. and quietly filled my room with balloons. Last year was the first year she didn’t do that for me,” Medvedev said in Wood. He spoke about his late mother at her funeral in Bury. Daily news.
Vitels is ready to start a new chapter and is “very excited” to be “preparing to move to New York City to conquer the world,” her son said.
