275 @POLLY
The New York City Crime Report with Pat Dixon
Pat Dixon
4.2 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
ROBBERY. MURDER. RAPE. HILARIOUS.
GRISLY MURDER IN QUEENS, WITNESSES SHOCKED AS JEALOUS HUSBAND IS SEEN DECAPITATING HIS WIFE ON THE STREET.
GUEST: POLLY MOSENDZ (NEWSWEEK, BLOOMBERG).
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| 0:00.0 | I just feel like if you have been married for 30 years, you gotta get like a nice blade. |
| 0:06.4 | 30 years of marriage and you play it cheap on the murder weapon. |
| 0:09.6 | From the smallest room in New York City. |
| 0:11.5 | I think that she wouldn't have wanted it down. |
| 0:13.4 | There comes a show that gives you a reason to live. |
| 0:16.1 | Rizzley murder in Queens, a jealous husband stabbed his wife to death on the street, nearly decapitating her |
| 0:23.8 | in front of horrified witnesses in Ozone Park. |
| 0:26.9 | The killer, Prem Rampersaud, reputed to be a, quote, drunken type. |
| 0:33.5 | Also variously described as, and these are quotes, ignorant, paranoid, delusional, and a monster. |
| 0:40.2 | And this is like his family and friends and shit. |
| 0:42.3 | He's from Guyana and his wife, as is as was his wife, a Baldayo Rajwante, a 50-year-old |
| 0:50.6 | rampersawed and a 48-year-old wife. |
| 0:53.8 | They were married 30 years, but had been sleeping |
| 0:57.8 | in separate countries. Raj Wante moved to New York one year ago. You hear me choking on all these |
| 1:04.7 | names, Polly? You're trying. So she moved to New York one year ago with the couple's 29-year-old |
| 1:08.7 | daughter, who's now 30, with $9,000, |
| 1:11.8 | Rampersod gave her to get settled. |
| 1:13.9 | Well, Rampersad came to New York on a tourist visa, and one week later, Rajwanti would be dead |
| 1:20.5 | and almost headless. |
| 1:22.7 | It's after midnight, Monday morning, the 5th, 103rd Avenue, and 1224th Street around 1215. She was leaving work after |
| 1:29.2 | her shift as a cook at the Oasis Cafe, which specializes in West Indian and Chinese cuisine, |
| 1:34.8 | open 11 to 11, seven days a week, 42 reviews, and four out of five on Yelp, two touchdowns |
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