Squatters killed woman found dead in duffel bag after move into Manhattan apartment
MARCH 23, 2024 EMMA SEIWELL - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, THOMAS TRACY - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS AND ELLEN MOYNIHAN - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The woman found dead stuffed in a duffel bag in the closet of the Manhattan apartment she was staying in was killed by a pair of squatters who had taken up residence there, police said Thursday.
The killers, who are still on the run, escaped in victim Nadia Vitels’ vehicle, which was found crashed and abandoned in Pennsylvania, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Vitels was getting the apartment on E. 31st St. near Third Ave. in Kips Bay ready for another relative to live in when she stumbled across the couple squatting there, Kenny says.
Around the same time Vitels was killed, the squatters threw her belongings down the garbage chute, arising the suspicion of the victim’s next-door neighbor who has access to the same chute.
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