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Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago In Area ID'd As Woman Reported Missing Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago In Area ID'd As Woman Reported Missing
Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago In Area ID'd As Woman Reported Missing Forty-two years after a New York woman’s mutilated body was found discarded in a travel trunk near a dumpster at a Hudson Valley apartment complex, investigators have finally made a positive identification. New York State Police identified the victim as Anna L. Papalardo-Blake, of New York City. She was 44 years old at the time. Papalardo-Blake’s headless body was discovered in Dutchess County in March 1980 at the Hudson View Apartments in the town of Fishkill. Both of her hands had also been removed, according to police. The Dutchess County Medical Examiner concluded that she had been ki…

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by Michael Mashburn
Police & Fire
Police Reopen Cold Case Of Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Salon In Town Of Newburgh Police Reopen Cold Case Of Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Salon In Town Of Newburgh
Police Reopen Cold Case Of Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Salon In Town Of Newburgh New York State Police are renewing efforts to solve the 18-year-old murder of a Hudson Valley hair stylist and mother of two killed inside her salon. Orange County resident Yvonne Torch was found dead on the morning of June 9, 2004 inside of His and Hers Salon on SR-9W in the Town of Newburgh, according to police. Investigators said the 31-year-old owner and operator had been brutally beaten to death. Torch’s husband of 13 years, Pierre, told NBC’s Dateline that police initially considered him a suspect in the killing but eventually ruled him out after three weeks of “sheer hell.” Despite…

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by Michael Mashburn
News
Undocumented Immigrant Sentenced For Murder Of Hudson Valley Socialite Undocumented Immigrant Sentenced For Murder Of Hudson Valley Socialite
Undocumented Immigrant Sentenced For Murder Of Hudson Valley Socialite An undocumented immigrant and former employer of Northern Westchester socialite Lois Elizabeth Colley has been sentenced for her 2015 murder at the family's estate. Esdras Marroquin Gomez, an ex-day laborer also known as “Victor,” was sentenced on Thursday, June 13, in Westchester County Court, to 22 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year. On Nov. 9, 2015, at approximately 5 p.m., a farmworker found Colley’s body lying in a pool of blood in her home’a laundry room after she had been bludgeoned to death at the family's North Salem farm. West…

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by Zak Failla