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NEW YORK — Police were investigating the mysterious death of a 20-year-old woman whose badly decomposed body was found behind a locked door in a New York University apartment complex.
The woman, whose name was not immediately released, was believed to be the daughter of a traveling NYU faculty member.
Investigators were treating the death as a homicide, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne, who declined further comment.
An autopsy done Monday was inconclusive. More testing was needed to confirm the woman's identity and determine how she died, said medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.
Police officers discovered the body Sunday night after two other tenants living in the apartment reported a foul odor coming from the woman's locked bedroom, police said. The tenants said they had last seen her alive on Wednesday.
The apartment is owned by a faculty member "who is currently traveling as part of a foreign study program," NYU spokesman John Beckman said in a statement. "The dead woman is believed to be her daughter."
The mother is a professor who has specialized in globalization and its impact on higher education. She also has served as a policy analyst for the South African government, according to an NYU Web site.
As a precaution, the school stepped up security patrols around the sprawling Washington Square Village complex in Greenwich Village, which mostly houses faculty members and their families.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Cops: Ex-Boyfriend Confesses to Killing NYU Professor's Daughter

Wednesday, August 08, 2007



NEW YORK — The former boyfriend of a woman whose decomposed body was found in a New York University apartment confessed to killing her after he tried to commit suicide Tuesday night, police said.
Police were searching for Michael Cordero, 23, to question him about the death of a professor's daughter when he went to the roof of a Manhattan housing project and slit his wrists, police said. His relatives found him and tried to help him, but he ran to a nearby supermarket, where police held him around 8:40 p.m.
Cordero was taken immediately to a hospital for treatment of his injuries and told workers, "'I tried to kill myself because I killed my girlfriend,"' said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne.

The body of Boitumelo McCallum, 20, was found wrapped in a sheet in a locked bedroom of a faculty apartment on Sunday after tenants complained of a foul smell.
McCallum held a South African passport, and police identified her with fingerprints provided by that nation's
The body had "a possible fractured nose," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The cause of death had not been determined. An autopsy done Monday was inconclusive.
Cordero was believed to have been at a party at the apartment that began Wednesday night and continued into Thursday, police said. They believe McCallum died Thursday.
He was being interviewed by detectives at the hospital. No telephone listing could immediately be found for his family.
McCallum was a daughter of NYU professor Teboho Moja, who has specialized in globalization and its effect on higher education. The woman's mother also has served as a policy analyst for the South African government, according to an NYU Web site.
NYU officials said she was out of the country.

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