The suitcase was recovered Dec. Whitman is expected to testify that the black-and-gray Ricardo Beverly Hills suitcase is the same piece of luggage Oquendo had owned when they were dating. Assistant District Attorney Andrew Botts asked Whitman some brief questions about her past text-messaging with Alkaramla.
The prosecutor ended his questioning of Whitman after just a few minutes with plans to recall her next week when he will have laid more of a legal foundation. On cross-examination, Roberts initially suggested Oquendo and Whitman had broken up in after she had found compromising photos of him with Alkaramla. Whitman said it was untrue. Roberts then moved on to Whitman's alleged activity with animals.
The defense attorney asked her if it was true that she turned over her cellphone to Troy police, and with it the alleged sexual encounter with the dog. At one point, while preparing to play the video, Roberts asked the judge, "With or without sound?
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Top Stories. Cuomo's attorney: Report biased, misleading. The dangerous trend between TikTok and self-diagnosing mental health disorders. Debra Napoli called Oquendo, her ex-husband, a menace to society who carried out a killing of unimaginable brutality. Alkaramla vanished Nov. She had finished a waitressing shift at a city restaurant hours before Oquendo killed her at his Troy apartment.
He then stuffed her body in a suitcase and threw it into the Hudson River. Her remains were found when the suitcase surfaced months later in Albany. Oquendo was convicted of second-degree murder in November, but his sentencing faced repeated delays because of flaws in the preparation of pre-sentencing reports. Last week, Ceresia agreed to let Oquendo to represent himself.
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