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Man walks into police station, says he chopped off girlfriend’s head
By Emily Saul and Ben Feuerherd
August 31, 2018 | 11:53am | Updated
A man strolled into a Tribeca police station house this week and said, “I have to make a confession” — then admitted to chopping off his girlfriend’s head four years ago, authorities said Friday.
Police: Man confesses to woman’s 2014 murder
Ricky Gonzalez, 34, told First Precinct cops Tuesday that he fatally stabbed 58-year-old Maria Quinones inside their Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment in 2014 in a dispute over money. He said he then dismembered her body and disposed of it in the garbage, according to court documents.
Gonzalez told police he followed Quinones that day into the bathroom of the apartment they shared on Wilson Avenue near Himrod Street and plunged a large knife into her chest while standing behind her, according to the documents.
Gonzalez then dragged her body into the bathtub and grabbed a butcher knife and blade sharpener, he said.
He beheaded Quinones’ corpse, chopped off her hands and feet and cut her torso into two pieces, according to the documents.
He then stuffed her body parts into trash bags and put the sacks out on the curb to be picked up for garbage collection, authorities said.
Gonzalez and Quinones had met in a drug-treatment program, police sources said.
Quinones’ sister reported her missing in September 2014, telling police she had not seen her since March of that year.
Gonzalez, who lives in upstate Beacon, was arrested after his confession and hit with charges of murder and concealment of a corpse.
He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and ordered held without bail. His attorney did not return requests for comment.
The suspect’s grisly confession came a day before a couple was charged with beating a 25-year-old woman to death and dismembering her body in the bathtub of their apartment in the Longwood section of The Bronx.
Daquan Wheeler, 31, allegedly beat Lisa Marie Velasquez to death with a hammer Aug. 22 and ordered his girlfriend, Ciara Martinez, to help him dismember her, sources told The Post. The couple then put the body in plastic bags and scattered them in Crotona Park.
Wheeler became enraged after Velasquez called 911 out of fear he would hurt Martinez, police said.
Martinez and Wheeler were charged Thursday with murder, manslaughter, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon.
Man walks into police station, says he chopped off girlfriend’s head
By Emily Saul and Ben Feuerherd
August 31, 2018 | 11:53am | Updated
A man strolled into a Tribeca police station house this week and said, “I have to make a confession” — then admitted to chopping off his girlfriend’s head four years ago, authorities said Friday.
Police: Man confesses to woman’s 2014 murder
Ricky Gonzalez, 34, told First Precinct cops Tuesday that he fatally stabbed 58-year-old Maria Quinones inside their Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment in 2014 in a dispute over money. He said he then dismembered her body and disposed of it in the garbage, according to court documents.
Gonzalez told police he followed Quinones that day into the bathroom of the apartment they shared on Wilson Avenue near Himrod Street and plunged a large knife into her chest while standing behind her, according to the documents.
Gonzalez then dragged her body into the bathtub and grabbed a butcher knife and blade sharpener, he said.
He beheaded Quinones’ corpse, chopped off her hands and feet and cut her torso into two pieces, according to the documents.
He then stuffed her body parts into trash bags and put the sacks out on the curb to be picked up for garbage collection, authorities said.
Gonzalez and Quinones had met in a drug-treatment program, police sources said.
Quinones’ sister reported her missing in September 2014, telling police she had not seen her since March of that year.
Gonzalez, who lives in upstate Beacon, was arrested after his confession and hit with charges of murder and concealment of a corpse.
He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and ordered held without bail. His attorney did not return requests for comment.
The suspect’s grisly confession came a day before a couple was charged with beating a 25-year-old woman to death and dismembering her body in the bathtub of their apartment in the Longwood section of The Bronx.
Daquan Wheeler, 31, allegedly beat Lisa Marie Velasquez to death with a hammer Aug. 22 and ordered his girlfriend, Ciara Martinez, to help him dismember her, sources told The Post. The couple then put the body in plastic bags and scattered them in Crotona Park.
Wheeler became enraged after Velasquez called 911 out of fear he would hurt Martinez, police said.
Martinez and Wheeler were charged Thursday with murder, manslaughter, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon.