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The city medical examiner’s office determined late Thursday that
the man suffered several stab wounds to his back and neck and
was the victim of a homicide, according to authorities.
Police have not yet been able to identify the man.
‘The body was so badly decomposed they don’t know who it is,’ a
law enforcement source told the New York Post earlier on
Thursday.
Cops responded to an apartment on Jamaica Avenue near 77th
Street in the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens on Wednesday
afternoon after a tenant called the landlord to report a foul
smell.
Arriving officers gained entry into the unit and found a body
pinned under a couch, according to officials. The man had signs
of trauma to his back. Emergency responders at the scene
pronounced him dead.
His body was deteriorated to such a degree that officials
suspect he may have been dead for two weeks. The man believed to
be the victim was also last seen a couple of weeks ago, sources
told the newspaper.
However, authorities released no details on the possible victim,
including his age.
As of Friday morning, no arrests had been made in the case. No
information on a possible suspect has been disclosed.
The events leading up to the fatal stabbing are under an ongoing
police investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police
department’s Crime Stoppers.
The man’s decomposing body was found nearly six months after
cops in Slaughter, Louisiana, found the body of a 36-year-old
autistic woman fused into a couch, surrounded by her own waste,
in her parents’ home. Authorities think that Lacey Fletcher, who
had bed sores revealing her bone, may have been confined to the
sofa for 12 years.
Her parents, Sheila and Clay Fletcher, have been charged with
second-degree murder, and their trial could begin as soon as
October.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/01/new-york-man-whose-rotting-body-
was-under-sofa-was-stabbed-to-death-16929479/