The body of a 70-year-old woman stuffed into trash bags was found in a Bronx apartment, and four people were taken into custody for questioning. fox news digital.
Authorities arrived at the scene on Grand Concourse Avenue in Mott Haven around 2 p.m. Thursday. The victim, Margie Ann William Collins, 70, was from Georgia and was staying with her relatives in an apartment in the Bronx. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim was reportedly discovered by her mother’s daughter-in-law, who was staying at the apartment. Two men and two women were initially questioned by authorities after the discovery, but three of them were later released.
The caretaker, Inga Bearden, 53, was charged with concealing a corpse, a felony. Officials said there were no signs of physical trauma to her body, but an autopsy report has not yet been released.
new york post report William Collins said he took a long shower Thursday and then relaxed on his girlfriend’s side of the living room, which she and Bearden used as their shared bedroom. When Bearden went to check on William Collins, she was found dead.
Sources say Bearden then called her 50-year-old husband, who allegedly helped Bearden place William Collins’ body into a black garbage bag. Bearden’s husband does not live in the apartment.
Bearden’s husband is still being sought by authorities. The newspaper reported that William Collins, Bearden and her teenage children have been living in the two-bedroom apartment since October.
Fox News Digital reported that the tragic incident came days after 52-year-old Nadia Vitel was found stuffed into a duffel bag in her Kips Bay apartment.
A pair of squatters were eventually arrested in Pennsylvania after leaving New York and crashing a stolen Vitel car. The woman had just flown in from Spain to visit her late mother’s apartment – which had been vacant for about three to four months. According to her, she planned to prepare the apartment for a friend of her family to move in. report.
“We believe some squatters took over the apartment and this woman came home and invaded the squatters who were there,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said.
Vitel suffered blunt force trauma to the head, multiple facial fractures, bleeding on the brain and two broken ribs, authorities said.
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