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A 54-year-old woman and a man who was believed to be her nephew were found decomposing in an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) and yesterday the forensic investigation concluded that they died of strangulation.

Officially the case is considered by the New York police as a double murdersaid a spokesperson for the City Coroner’s Office (OCME). Both victims died from sores in the neck.

No one has been arrested. The bodies were found on July 24 when a friend of the woman called the police for a welfare check.

That morning the friend, who bought groceries for the woman once a week, visited her apartment on Ditmas Ave. near E. Seventh St. in Kensington. No one opened it, except him He smelled a bad smell from the other side of the door. He called 911, the police arrived and opened the door, finding the two decomposing bodies.

Police have not officially named the woman or the man, who is believed to be in his 20s and was the tenant’s nephew. The two shared the flat. The friend had not seen the woman since July 17, he said. Daily News.

The woman had lived in the apartment for years with her parents, who died about five years ago, according to neighbors, saying they had not seen any warning signs in the days before her death. “She didn’t seem distressed or anything out of the ordinary,” said a neighbor, but she said that she is often seen walking around the block complaining to herself.

No arrests have been made or any suspects identified. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page Crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CREATIVE), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

Domestic violence is persistent in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with small victims. Every day in NYC, an average of approx 747 incidents of domestic violence – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and around 65 murders each year.

Also last month, four people – including two small children – were found stabbed to death in an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) and a friend was arrested for the crime. and this week A 31-year-old man admitted to the police stabbing his elderly father to death in your home in Ridgefield, a quiet town in Connecticut that hadn’t been killed in over two decadesin 2003.

In July was Dimone Fleming accused of killing children in shelter there The Bronx (NYC) in 2022. Earlier that month Romney Desronvil was indicted take your 3 year old twins and take them with you from Queens (NYC) to a beach in Connecticut with the intention of drowning themin the midst of a bitter separation from his wife.

days before A mother and her two children were taken to hospital after he was seriously injured with a knife in their East Orange home, New Jersey.

In May A mother was accused of beating her daughter to death in the Bronx (NYC) and his father in New Jersey He was on trial accused of killing his 6-year-old son by abusing him because “the kid was fat”according to prosecutors.

Also that month, a Latino ex-felon was charged fatally beating his mother in her room in The Bronx (NYC). In April a Hispanic man was accused of brutally killing his girlfriend in Harlem (NYC). It was later learned that he was deported for drug trafficking in 2002, but returned to the countryaccording to prosecutors.

In February there was Lasasha Gouldbourne (31). Charged with involuntary manslaughter months after newborn twins found stuffed in laundry bag in The Bronx (NYC). Days later a man was charged killing his sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan when she was sitting next to her father in a home in Erwin, New York.

Also that month a young 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was killed by her husband, who then killed himself in the victim’s apartment there Brooklyn (NYC). Y A mother died and her two children were injured after a gunman shot them inside a flat in The Bronx (NYC).

In January A man was arrested a day after his mother’s funeral on suspicion of strangling her. in your home in Island State (NYC). Also that month A woman has been sentenced for the death of her twin babies in Long Island (NY). days before Hispanic woman killed her daughters and husband, then took her own life in her Union (NJ) home after receiving an eviction order, the authorities reported.

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