Cops study security cams in NY grad student slay
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Cops study security cams in grad student slay
Feb 28, 2006
BY LUIS PEREZ
NEWSDAY STAFF WRITER
Published February 28 2006
NEW YORK -- A former boyfriend of the criminal justice graduate student
whose body was found bound and gagged in a weedy park in Brooklyn was
among those questioned Tuesday, as investigators stepped up their probe
and asked the public's help in identifying a piece of evidence.
Police said the ex-boyfriend, Ryan Kocher, was not a focus of the
investigation and was only one of several people interviewed in
relation to the death Saturday of Imette St. Guillen, 24. The young
woman's lifeless body was found dumped on Seaview Avenue off the Belt
Parkway in Brooklyn, nearly 18 hours after she was last seen at a lower
Manhattan bar.
Kocher, 22, a criminal justice major at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, said he last spoke to St. Guillen a week before she was
killed. They began dating in November and only recently broke up, he
said.
"She was wonderful in every way you could describe a person to be
wonderful," said Kocher, of North Bergen, N.J. "I don't know how anyone
could do that to her. I just hope they are brought to justice."
Police Tuesday released magnified images of a pastel, flower-patterned,
hotel-style comforter that shrouded St. Guillen's naked body when it
was discovered.
"It's a comforter that normally would be found in a motel -- not the
type that most people would have in their homes," one high-ranking
police official said.
Police said someone reporting the quilt missing will elicit clues about
where St. Guillen was murdered. They distributed magnified images of
the quilt's tiny labels, which bear the brand name Springmaid.
St. Guillen, a dean's list student at John Jay, was drinking with
female friends at the Pioneer Bar on the Bowery until about 3 a.m.
Saturday. She stayed on after her friends left.
Police believe she was murdered somewhere else, and suspect the quilt
may lead them to another place St. Guillen visited or was taken to
after the bar.
Authorities also want to speak with the anonymous 911 caller who found
St. Guillen's body. Anyone with information can contact Crimestoppers
at 800-577-TIPS. All calls are confidential.
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<eartha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1141196270.7...@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
I've never really paid attention, but do comforters found in motel/hotel
rooms usually have brand labels like that? I thought they are usually
purchased in bulk from suppliers?
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