Officials release affidavit after Bronx woman's body found inside of suitcase
NYPD Crime Scene Unit spent Sunday afternoon in Fordham Heights, where they collected evidence at the Morris Avenue building where 26-year-old Pamela Alcantara lived.
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Officials released an affidavit on Sunday detailing what they said happened in the final moments of the Bronx woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in Yonkers.
NYPD Crime Scene Unit spent Sunday afternoon in Fordham Heights, where they collected evidence at the Morris Avenue building where 26-year-old Pamela Alcantara lived.
Alcantara was reported missing on March 2. Her body was found on Thursday morning.
According to the affidavit, 46-year-old Junior Perez Diaz, Alcantara’s boyfriend, prevented her from leaving their apartment between 2 a.m. and 5 p.m. on March 2, which caused her to miss a phone call and a church event she was expected to attend.
Officials said Alcantara was strangled and had bruises on her arm, neck, and head.
Court documents show Perez Diaz left the apartment around 5 p.m. with a red suitcase with his girlfriend’s body inside. He then allegedly dumped that suitcase in a ditch along Sawmill River Parkway just before Exit 5 in Yonkers.
Officers walked out Perez Diaz out of the 46th Police Precinct on Friday night. He is charged with murder, kidnapping and manslaughter.
His ex-wife, the mother of his two grown children, was among the screams being yelled outside of the precinct. She told News 12 she herself endured at least 5 years of abuse before the city helped her escape.
