The Mummy Maniac

Grad student brutally murdered in Brooklyn

This is a horrible strory:

A wake for Imette St. Guillen, 24, was scheduled for Friday in Boston, followed by a funeral on Saturday.

Authorities say someone apparently accosted St. Guillen sometime after she left a Lower Manhattan bar, then raped, strangled and suffocated her by wrapping packing tape around her entire face.

Her beaten and raped body was found dumped on a deserted Brooklyn road, which was reported to be a notorious mob dumping site. There was a 911 call from a tipster informing police of the location. Caller, "Uh, I think there is a body, you should send someone to check it out."

Of course police are very interested in who might have made the 9-1-1 call. It could have been the murderer himself.

Imette was seen at a club at 3:30 am and video surveillance shows her talking to a friend who was trying to get her to leave the bar. The friend got in a cab and left. Imette went to another bar, The Falls, where witnesses say she came and left alone.

Here's my guess: Imette went in The Falls and she never came out alive. Whoever was at The Falls at 3:30 am knows what happened and are not talking. The 9-1-1call could have come from someone who was at the bar.

There is a lot to be said about this case. I love a good mystery. But the reality of it is that whatever was going on in this young woman's life, she didn't deserve to be raped, beaten, killed and dumped by the side of the road. No one deserves that except for maybe the sociopath who would do such a thing. Think about the characters on The Sopranos. I believe they had this exact story line in one episode.

This is the type of case that Greta Van Sustren will sink her teeth into so we will be getting a lot a lot more details.

Read the FoxNews story here.

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The sensationalism begins. FoxNews is calling the murderer the "Mummy Maniac".

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The "fake cabby" theory is sounding good. There was an abduction last month by a guy posing as a fake cabby. Someone posing as a cabby could have spotted Immette leaving The Falls, picked her up in a fake cab or livery car, and took her away. Someone like that would leave the 9-1-1 call I think.

Right now (about 11:20 am), Police are doing a grid search of the area where the body was found. This is almost a week later so maybe they think the "mummy maniac" may have used the dumping grounds before. Or perhaps they have a suspect who they are trying to link to the site.