Deaf Man is Convicted of Murdering Girlfriend

Deaf Harlem man convicted of fatally stabbing girlfriend 38 times.

NEW YORK CITY -- It took a Manhattan jury less than two hours Friday to convict a Deaf Harlem man of murder for stabbing his Deaf girlfriend 38 times then stuffing her corpse into the bottom of a 55 gallon drum.

After a gruesome month-long trial, jurors deliberated for an hour and half before finding Bismark Lithgow, 26, guilty of killing Francis Pellerano Feb 28 of 2013.

The barrel where the body his girlfriend was found.

Lithgow became increasingly controlling after Pellerano moved into his Harlem apartment he shared with his grandmother, and accused her of cheating, prosecutor Ryan Hayward argued at trial.

As revenge for the perceived betrayal, Lithgow viciously butchered the petite brunette, wrapped her tiny body into a sheet then stuffed it into the bottom of the blue drum.

Pellerano’s corpse festered in his room for two days until his grandmother discovered the drum’s sickening contents.

The defense conceded that Lithgow committed the heinous crime but argued he was in a state of extreme emotional disturbance caused by a frigid mother and brain damage from a childhood illness.

He’s expected to be sentenced April 1st and faces up to life in prison...

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NY Man Brutal Stabbing of Deaf Teen Girlfriend

Bismark Lithgow, 24, charged in death of 19-year-old Francis Pellerano. Police say Lithgow stuffed the victim’s body into a 55-gallon drum.

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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Deaf Woman's Body Found in Drum in NYC

Deaf Providence woman's body found in drum in New York City.

NEW YORK CITY -- A young woman from Providence was the victim of a gruesome murder in Harlem, New York City.

The body of 19-year-old Francis Alfonso Pellerano was found in a 55-gallon drum inside a Harlem apartment over the weekend.

"I always knew that something was going to happen to her. I wasn't sleeping at night," the victim's father, Manuel Alfonso, told NBC 10 News through a translator.

Pellerano was Deaf and could not speak. She was a student at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf on and off for about five years, until she left the school late last year.

Family members said she went to New York with a young man she met on Facebook. He is also Deaf.

Media outlets in New York reported that Pellerano may have been planning to leave the boyfriend. Pellerano's body was found in the barrel by the boyfriend's grandmother, who smelled a foul odor.

There have been no arrests. The boyfriend is under psychiatric care in a New York hospital.

"I want justice because I know he's not crazy. He cleaned all the blood after he killed her," Alfonso said.

The Rhode Island School for the Deaf is planning a memorial for Pellerano.

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