This is scary

Nothing taken, no signs of forced entry. Might very well be someone she knew. Romance gone wrong? Family or friend?

What a horrible way to die!

Um.... does this mean her apartment is available? I mean, NOTHING ever opens up on West End Avenue.

Okay, Dataloungers, let's get on it!

Rent controlled, landlord.

She'll laugh no more at my half-inch of fury.

it's a coop bldg so no rent control.. full time doorman so they should know who went up to the apt.

"elderly"? a girl of mere 70?

The grandson did it...if there is a grandson

if she had money, maybe a trustafarian ingrate, like the one who popped his poppa on beekman place a few years ago

Meh. She was old and she would have died anyway.

True, but she was a blonde.

Blonde lives matter!

[quote]does this mean her apartment is available?

There are already 3 apartments for sale in the building and one under contract but who knows if that one will actually sell. This is not good publicity for the building considering that there are literally thousands of apartments on the market in NYC right now.

Was she recently visited by a student at Hudson University? If so, that’s your killer.

Next!

Enough with the black hole links. No photo. No summary. No nothing.

You are fucking annoying.

R14, the link works. Who the fuck r u to come at the OP that way.

I'll come at the OP any fucking way I want, bitch. Who the fuck are you, R15?

Sketchy neighborhood, happens all the time.

May she RIP. She was a good girl.

Lenny Briscoe would have had this solved by now.

Dear rude cunts (R14, etc) who are too fucking stupid to open links properly on DL. There is a simple fix to YOUR problem but I am not going to explain it because you are so fucking rude. Ask nicely and maybe I'll tell you what 95 percent of us already know.

Police are focusing on a female resident of the building.

Max and Mike, Phil and Mike, Lenny and Mike, Rey and Lenny, Ed and Lenny, etc... I can't remember all of their names - who would solve it first?

My friend lives in that building. Holy shit.

[quote] Sketchy neighborhood, happens all the time.

Agree. Bad area of UWS.

Local evening news here in NYC saying cops have a primary POI, whom they have been interrogating, a female neighbor in the same building. Sources saying no signs of forced entry and nothing taken, so likely someone she knew.

Ultimate lesbian drama or victim slept with the wrong husband? I know she was 70 but evidently still attractive and active for a woman of her age.

Also, cops saying blood evidence in living room suggested signs of a struggle there and they followed a trail of blood from there to bedroom, where the victim was found dead with her throat cut.

It's not easy to kill someone that way. Hard to believe the killer is another old lady.

I don't do knives, so I don't know why you're looking at me.

Plus, she was old. If you don't nip it in the bud early on, it just too much trouble later on.

It is a sketchy neighborhood I know I live a block away there are four homeless ex mental patients housed nrarby. I got mugged nearby last Friday

First thing that popped out to me (besides the use of the word “gore” which suggests more than blood; there wouldn’t be entrails or grey matter if it was just her throat that was cut), is that she was a twice-married childless animal rescue lady.

Those people are absolutely insane. And she’s described as “eccentric”? There you have it. She was one of those. Dollars to donuts the dead woman complained about how the killer was treating her dog. You cannot underestimate how these old ladies get about their animals.

She was an animal advocate and used to spread bird seed around attracting pigeons and rats to the building. Per the NYC news last night, the victim liked to speak her mind. For someone to slit her throat there was intense personal hatred involved. Oh I think she was doing an animal rescue thing too.

Hey OP! It is NOT Law n Order! Jesus have you never seen the opening credits? The mothership of all L&O programs is titled Law & Order. I hope the ghosts of Claire and Borga, Max and Lenny haunt you through Halloween!

R23 You better call the police and tell them about your friend.

BTW, here's the latest from the NY Times... cops are looking for a neighbor. I'll bet crazy bird seed throwing eccentric blond irritated one tenant just a bit too much and out came a blade and that was that. Still not a good way to go... seems kind of harsh.

Doesn’t shit like that only happen in the Bronx??

R30: I know it's not funny, but your comment made me laugh...

[quote] My friend lives in that building. Holy shit.

[quote] cops are looking for a neighbor.

Connection?

Bump - any updates on which neighbor killed her?

Almost every person I know who is involved heavily in the pet rescue scene is nuts. Sad, but true.

I betcha the victim called the cops and/or a government agency because she thought the murderer was abusing her pet(s), and/or kid(s).

R23, have you talked to your friend who lives there? What's up?

Update

Darn R42, you beat me to it! Here's my link from the NY Times... the big Law & Order question is why, WHY would a 24 yr old woman need to slachs the throat of a 70 yr old neighbor?

Christmas has come early this year!

R33, a friend of mine kept making SVU references to this case, I told him "no". There's no sexual assault - why would Olivia care some old woman's throat was slashed? If there was a sapphic angle, maybe Olivia would follow, but right now this is strictly Lenny Briscoe territory.

LOL R44--spot on.

And R43 -- the killer's mental illness was described in very polite NY Times terms. She was likely schizophrenic and then some and wind up in a psychiatric prison ward for life since her well off parents will get a good lawyer.