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Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago ID'd As NYC Woman Reported Missing Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago ID'd As NYC Woman Reported Missing
Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago ID'd As NYC 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 NY Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Her Salon Police Reopen Cold Case Of NY Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Her Salon
Police Reopen Cold Case Of NY Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Her Salon 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