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🗓️ 28 March 2024
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Nadia Vitel spends a couple of days moving personal items into an apartment in Manhattan's Kips Bay, and she is captured on security cameras going in and out several times on March 10.
Vitel spends two days on Long Island then on March 12 she heads back to the Kips Bay Apartment. Vitel's son, Michael Medvedev, talks with her on Tuesday the 12th, but after the 12th, she isn't answering calls or returning texts.
After two days of no contact, Medvedev calls police to do a welfare check on his 52-year-old mother. Waiting for the police, Medvedev convinces the building super to let him into the apartment. Walking through the apartment, nothing seems amiss, except his mother is not there. As they are walking out, Medvedev notices a duffel bag in a closet, which seems a bit out of place.
The investigation into the death of Nadia Vitel starts with her injuries and the surveillance cameras in the building. Vitel suffered blunt force trauma to the head, multiple facial fractures, a brain bleed, and two broken ribs. Her body is found on Thursday, March 14.
Investigators look back and find surveillance video showing Vital as she brings her personal items into the building on the 10th. Vital leaves the building just after 11 am on March 10th, and 19-year-old Halley Tejada and 18-year-old Kensly Alston, are seen trying to enter the building around 2 pm the 10th. 1 hour later Tejada and Alston are on camera in the building and seen on elevator surveillance camera entering Nadia Vitel's apartment.
NYPD police chief Joseph Kenny says Halley Tejada and Kensly Alston were squatting in Nadia Vitel's apartment. When Vitel returned to the apartment on March 12, she confronted the squatters who proceeded to allegedly beat her to death, and cram her body into a duffel bag. Tejada and Alston allegedly through Vitel's personal effects and more in the trash, then left the building in her Lexus SUV.
Using Vitel's bank cards, Tejada and Alston charge their way to Pennsylvania where they are involved in a traffic accident on March 13. Alston gives police a fake name, slowing the process of clearing the accident. Once Vitel's body is found on the 14th, her Lexus is reported stolen, and the US Marshals are able to track Tejada and Alston to Lower Paxton Township Pennsylvania where they are placed in custody.
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0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
0:07.0 | How does a tennis star a beautiful mother end up dead stuffed in a duffel bag. |
0:27.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
0:29.0 | Thank you for being with us here at crime stories and on Series XM 111. First of all, take a listen to this. |
0:36.5 | Michael Medvedev takes a closer look at the duffel bag he discovered in a closet. |
0:40.6 | He notices the bag is an odd shape and moving a coat out of the way. |
0:44.4 | Medvedev sees a foot. He calls the fire department and they arrive about the same time as |
0:48.6 | police. They determine the dead body in the bag is Nadia Vatel. The medical examiner wants to save as much |
0:54.9 | evidence as possible so they leave the body in the duffel bag for transport to the |
0:58.7 | medical examiner's office. Removing the bag reveals a large bloodstain. |
1:03.3 | You are hearing our friends at crime online.com. |
1:07.4 | We take a close look at a duffel bag inside of a closet and realized something is horribly wrong. |
1:17.0 | Again, this is crime stories. |
1:18.5 | Thanks for being with us. |
1:19.7 | How did a tennis star end up stuffed in a duffel bag with me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now joining me investigative reporter from CBS 21, Holly Jacobs. |
1:34.0 | Howley, it's hard to believe that this has happened to this really glamorous |
1:40.0 | tennis star mom and nobody knew a thing. |
1:44.0 | Where did this happen? Was it a private home? Was it in the suburbs? A rural area? What? |
1:50.0 | So it actually took place in Manhattan, New York City, |
1:53.0 | and it was in her apartment building. |
1:54.8 | So a big apartment building picture that |
1:56.9 | and around the 19th floor. |
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