The Body in the Trash Chute

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

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4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Was Lara Prychodko's horrifying fall to her death down the 27th floor garbage chute of her luxury New York City apartment building an accident, a suicide...or was she strangled by a hitman?

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0:00.0	Breaking news, a horror inside of Manhattan high-rise.
0:03.2	Tonight, officers on the scene after a woman's body was found in a trash compactor.
0:08.8	On July 10, 2018, a 48-year-old woman named Laura Prohodko had just finished celebrating the World Cup with her friends.
0:17.6	Laura spoke fluent French.
0:19.3	She was a big Francophile, and France had played Belgium in the
0:23.4	semifinals of the World Cup that day. France won, which if you follow football, is a big deal.
0:31.3	So Laura was in a celebratory mood. After she left the bar in Union Square, she went home.
0:36.9	Laura lived in a two-bedroom apartment on the 27th floor of the Zeckendorf Towers,
0:41.5	which is a luxury building near Union Square in New York City.
0:45.5	This case is a little bit personal for me because I live in New York City
0:49.7	and I pass by this building in Union Square all the time.
0:55.2	So I've been thinking about this case ever since it happened.
0:58.7	I remember when it was all over the news in 2018.
1:01.4	A swarm of police showed up at the towers.
1:05.6	And pretty soon this case was all over the news.
1:07.8	Laura was estranged from her husband.
1:09.9	She married her husband, David Schlesche,
1:13.4	a CEO of a construction company in 2003. But the marriage had had problems. So Laura was living
1:20.2	at the apartment by herself. Though as we'll get into a little bit later, there were other people
1:26.4	staying with her and there was someone else on
1:28.8	the lease, someone who was not her estranged husband. On that day, on July 10th, we know that
1:34.9	Laura returned to her apartment building and she was pretty intoxicated at the time. She was
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