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Bernard Perez &
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The best place to start this little page would be the beginning of the police investigation. It began when a man had stopped a patrol car and told police he had seen severed body parts in an apartment in the housing project. A pretty odd complaint one would imagine, and one that police might want to investigate. Which is what they did. So they went over to the apartment, which would seem a pretty good place to start, but I doubt that they would have expected when they pulled up out the front. As they were getting out of their car they saw plastic bags containing parts of a body being thrown out of a window. They went upstairs and found Bernard Perez, 20, and Rahman Williams, 21. Both were quickly arrested and charged with murder. Once the suspects had been removed it game Police a chance to look around the apartment. According to a police spokesman, "they found in the bathroom, a bathtub that had blood and water in it. There were some cutting tools. There was blood on some clothing." The parts of human remains belonged to Jerry Pollard, a 37-year-old man whose apartment the two suspects allegedly moved into on Saturday. His severed hands had been found earlier in the shrubs outside the Dyckman Houses in Upper Manhattan, and they'd also found two severed legs his torso in a dumpster close by. Several dozen police officers, search dogs, and crime scene investigators had been looking for the rest of the body. I guess they got lucky. Following the arrest Perez told police he killed Pollard because "he was a crackhead and no one would miss him," and said he knew Drakeford from when the two "used to get high together." But the real reason for the murder seemed to be that the two killers needed a new place to live. And that's where this one gets really interesting. The apartment that the two had been living in was actually that of Doris Drakeford, 44. And why is this interesting? Well, Ms. Drakeford had been missing for 5 months, which was just after Perez and Williams had moved in. Her bloated corpse had been found a week earlier floating in the Harlem River. When police showed up at her apartment to inform someone of her death they found Perez, who admitted that he knew she was dead, but told police that he only helped dispose of her body. For some bizarre reason they decided not to charge him and he walked free. He has since been charged with her murder. As far as I know the two have yet to go to trial so all of the above is "alleged", okay. |
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MY OPINION Two losers with no place to live. What more can you say? Well, I’ll give it a go. You could say it’s a sad indictment on a society that doesn’t take care of it’s poor, or you could say it’s very frightening because it could happen to you. Or you could just see it as two losers that had no place to live, which is what I’ll do. |
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