Squatters allegedly beat woman to death in NYC apartment
Two squatters allegedly beat a woman to death and stuffed her in a duffel bag in the closet after she walked in on them in her dead mother's Manhattan apartment last week, authorities said.
Police found Nadia Vitel, 52, in the closet with her foot hanging out of a bag in an apartment on the 19th floor of 206 East 31st St. in Kips Bay at around 4:30 p.m. on March 15, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. The woman had several facial fractures, a brain bleed, two broken ribs and was pronounced dead at the scene.