Posted on 03/01/2006 10:56:18 AM PST by Tulsa Ramjet
NEW YORK — Investigators seeking witnesses and suspects in the brutal slaying of a graduate honors student have been studying security videotape from the neighborhood where she spent her last night out with friends, police said Tuesday.
One tape shows the victim, Imette St. Guillen, talking to a female friend at about 3 a.m. Saturday outside Pioneer, a bar in the Bowery section of Manhattan. The two can be seen parting ways, with the friend leaving by cab, police said.
The friend later told police St. Guillen sounded fine when she checked on her by cell phone about 30 minutes later. The victim informed her friend she had moved on to another bar in the same neighborhood, police said.
New York Police Department officials said they had collected other video from security cameras in the area hoping they would offer more answers about St. Guillen's final hours. Investigators also were looking for clues at a Brooklyn diner where an unidentified man used a telephone to call 911 with an anonymous tip her body had been dumped on a desolate roadside.
Police discovered the body at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Brooklyn's East New York section. Someone had bound the 24-year-old victim's face, hands and feet with packaging tape before wrapping her in a flower-print bedspread; investigators believe she had been raped.
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True. Sometimes common sense takes leave without the alcohol being involved.
this one is right out of "looking for mr goodbar".
I know.
Prayers for her family.
:-(
BTW, is AU short for Auburn University?
It might just bring someone forward who saw her. It happens all the time.
This is probably not his first murder according to the profilers.
Probably a Mommy's boy.
Yes, it is!
I think I also heard today that she was found about 6 miles from where she was last seen by her friend when they left the Pioneer bar.
As I posted above, there was a profiler on Fox today that said this could be a serial killer.
Many, many women are killed by boyfriends or husbands but usually not in this way. The taping and disfiguring of her body is part of a very sick minds fantasy.
I agree. Not to use the good old "serial killer" line when we only have one dead woman, but I thought that serial killers almost always start with someone they know well. But then again, I probably took that from "Silence of the Lambs". But still, it seems likely that she knew the killer.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar was the first thing I thought of.
Poor girl. Her friend will never forgive herself for leaving her alone.
Unbelievable cruelty, like some sh*t from the Balkans or Rwanda.
Story was national news this AM.
I think it turned out that he killed her after an argument.
She was found on the shoulder of a road or on ramp to a highway. The guy was captured.
It just seems to me that this girl was the Craiglist.com type or the MySpace type that looks for random hook ups.
That means that Serial Killer would now have an MO that involves internet hook ups.
Scary.
Very scary. I agree. Women should always be very careful about those sorts of things. Thank goodness I don't have to deal with the dating scene anymore!
she's 5 feet, 95 lbs..said to have had a total of 7-8 drinks ..rum and cokes..in a 6 hour period..her friend said that 2 would give her a buzz..
I wonder if the last bar/bartender is gonna have trouble for serving her..
If the second scenario is correct then she had, at a minimal, the cell phone number and name/alias of the killer that she was in touch with via some random meeting on the street, a newspaper personal ad, a internet site or NYC Craigslist.com.
If those details are correct then I'm sure she was sitting in the bar contemplating whether or not to be in touch with this person at 4 AM, as was probably planned in advance.
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