Pregnant NYC woman found slain day before wedding
NEW YORK Police and witnesses say a woman who was eight months pregnant has been found stabbed to death inside her New York home a day before her wedding.
Vindalee Smith was found inside her basement in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn on Saturday morning. The 38-year-old had been stabbed in the neck. It's not clear how long she had been dead before authorities found her.
Witnesses told the New York Post that Smith was supposed to be married on Sunday and that she had been living at the apartment for a few weeks while her four other children stayed with family friends.
They told the newspaper she had received death threats from a former neighbor at a previous address, but they stopped when she moved.
Police were looking for suspects.
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- GROWERGREG: What is your problem? You bash everything and everybody who doesn't agree with you. You must be lonely or unemployed since I see you make comments on here constantly. And your religion comments are old and tiring just as your political ones are. You must be the most negative person in your neighborhood.
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- Police "were" looking for suspects? Did they stop? The article doesn't say, or is very well written... even I, an untrained hack who didn't go to college for journalism, could likely do a better job at providing detail and we both know I can't... :)
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- Slandering a religion is wrong.
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- Perhaps.. but we live in a country of 'Free Speech' . Take a deep breath.. I think the message is that extreme positions are dangerous.
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- As long as religion doesn't judge me, I won't judge religion, but unfortunately religion tries to judge me every day. Stay out of my life and I won't yell at you to go away.
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- Oh that is horrible. Any information on the status of the groom to be? I mean its poorly written stories like this with hardly any hard facts an dno bacground in them that suggest newspapers and some news outlets should fail.
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