Video of Man in Harlem Suitcase Body Dumping Released by NYPD
NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS) There are new clues Thursday morning in the case of a disturbing discovery made on a New York City street.
Police are searching for a man who was recorded in a surveillance video on a darkened street wheeling a suitcase that later was found stuffed with a strangled woman's body, a block away from the famed Rao's Restaurant.
Late Wednesday evening, police released the video. CBS affiliate WCBS reports that police are sure he is the man who put the murdered woman inside the suitcase, which was discovered by a passer-by rummaging through the trash outside a building on East 114th Street.
On the video, the man with the suitcase takes his time to check the street out. People told WCBS's Pablo Guzman that around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, the man seemed to be waiting for people to leave the corner where Rao's is, at the end of the block.
When the man thought no one was looking, he walked with the suitcase to the garbage waiting for collection in front of 435 East 114th, about four doors down from Rao's.
Police sources said the victim is 28-year-old Betty Williams from the Bronx. The Medical Examiner says whoever killed her strangled her to death.
"Our investigative premise [is] that the body was brought there and left at that location, rather than the murder happening in the immediate vicinity," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told WCBS.