NEW YORK CITY -- A Harlem man was arrested for stabbing his Deaf teenage girlfriend to death and stuffing her body into a 55-gallon drum, cops said Thursday.
Bismark Lithgow, 24, was charged with murder in the killing of Francis Angelica Alfonso Pellerano, 19 whose bloodied body was found in a container in Lithgow’s Seventh Ave. apartment on March 2, cops said.
Lithgow’s grandmother made the grisly find after she drove her bipolar grandson to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital because he was acting strange, sources said.
The city’s medical examiner later determined Pellerano was stabbed to death.
Pellerano, who attended the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, had recently moved from her native Dominican Republic to live with Lithgow and his grandmother before she was killed, sources said.
Lithgow, who is also Deaf and worked as a janitor for the New York Sports Club on W. 145th St., was arrested after he was released from the hospital on Wednesday... Read The Full Story.
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