Mummy Maniac: Crime Scene Unit Scours Bar, Building for Clues
Jim Kouri, CPP
March 05, 2006
With a search warrant in hand, NYPD detectives and members of the Crime Scene Unit returned to the bar where slain John Jay College of Criminal Justice graduate student Imette St. Guillen was last seen alive.
Homicide detectives are hoping to discover the primary crime scene. They believe she was mutilated and murdered in Manhattan before being dumped in Brooklyn where the secondary crime scene is located.
CSU technicians, some wearing protective garb, conducted an exhaustive seach for any evidence that would shed some light on the Mummy Maniac case. The police spent many hours at The Falls, a lower-Manhattan drinking spot St. Guillen visited before she vanished one week ago. They also searched the rest of the building in which the bar was located.
Authorities believe the killer attacked and abducted St. Guillen after she left The Falls. Although there are security video cameras throughout the neighborhood, police review of the tapes met with negative results.
The 24-year-old criminal justice student from Boston was brutally raped, strangled and suffocated with packaging tape that was wrapped around her face. Before dying she was severely tortured by her killer, who used a knife to slice her vagina, as well. Her dead body was discovered later that night after an anonymous caller told police where to find the victim's remains in Brooklyn.
According to police, so far there have been few clues discovered at the Brooklyn site which is designated as the secondary crime scene. Yesterday about one hundred uniformed officers made a thorough search of the area in which St.Guillen was found.
The NYPD still has't identified any suspects in the case. A $42,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
The killer was dubbed the Mummy Maniac because of his or her modus operandi. Many criminologists and psychologists believe the killer may strike again.
(For more information on this case, see article dated March 1, 2006 written by Jim Kouri.)
Homicide detectives are hoping to discover the primary crime scene. They believe she was mutilated and murdered in Manhattan before being dumped in Brooklyn where the secondary crime scene is located.
CSU technicians, some wearing protective garb, conducted an exhaustive seach for any evidence that would shed some light on the Mummy Maniac case. The police spent many hours at The Falls, a lower-Manhattan drinking spot St. Guillen visited before she vanished one week ago. They also searched the rest of the building in which the bar was located.
Authorities believe the killer attacked and abducted St. Guillen after she left The Falls. Although there are security video cameras throughout the neighborhood, police review of the tapes met with negative results.
The 24-year-old criminal justice student from Boston was brutally raped, strangled and suffocated with packaging tape that was wrapped around her face. Before dying she was severely tortured by her killer, who used a knife to slice her vagina, as well. Her dead body was discovered later that night after an anonymous caller told police where to find the victim's remains in Brooklyn.
According to police, so far there have been few clues discovered at the Brooklyn site which is designated as the secondary crime scene. Yesterday about one hundred uniformed officers made a thorough search of the area in which St.Guillen was found.
The NYPD still has't identified any suspects in the case. A $42,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
The killer was dubbed the Mummy Maniac because of his or her modus operandi. Many criminologists and psychologists believe the killer may strike again.
(For more information on this case, see article dated March 1, 2006 written by Jim Kouri.)
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