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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Topless woman crushed in trash chute of luxury apartments. Dad says it's NO ACCIDENT!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Medical examiners rule the death of Lara Prychodko a terrible accident saying the topless drunkenly fell down her luxury Union Square building's trash chute. Her father doesn't agree and has signed outside investigators to find out the truth. Joining Nancy Grace today to discuss: Ashley Willcott - Judge and trial attorney, Anchor on Court TV, www.ashleywillcott.com  John Wagner - Warner Robins Ga Chief of Police Dr. Michelle - Dupre South Carolina Medical Examiner & Author of “Homicide Investigation Field Guide Dr Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills, drbethanymarshall.com Tina Moore - New York Post reporter

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0:00.0

You know what, I am very familiar with trash shoots in Manhattan apartment buildings.

0:10.8

I have a trash shoot just like that myself.

0:13.7

I don't think there's any way because the trash shoot is up at about test level.

0:20.2

Number one, this woman was partially naked, which defies everything we know about female

0:25.4

suicide.

0:27.6

That's what was she, not yet coming into the house that she could make a giant leap

0:31.6

and go down head first, down the trash shoot.

0:35.2

This is only about 14 inches by 14 inches.

0:40.0

I'm not buying it.

0:42.3

This Manhattan woman, Cubs say, dies after falling into a trash shoot in a luxury apartment.

0:50.1

But now they're revising that saying she may have been strangled to death.

0:57.6

The building goes by two different names, one are moving plaza and second door towers

1:11.4

and workers made that grizzly discovery about 430 this afternoon.

1:16.1

The body of a 48 year old woman, a resident of the building, found stuffed in the building's

1:22.4

trash compactor.

1:24.4

If they know how she got there, police aren't yet saying.

1:29.2

Prime scene investigators got to the second door of towers tonight to try and figure out

1:33.6

how the body of a 48 year old woman ended up in a trash compactor in the building.

1:39.5

They had the barricades up around the entrance and I have never seen 20 detectives wandering

1:46.4

around anywhere.

1:48.4

So it had to be some serious thing with suspicious search standards is because why else

1:54.1

were 20 detectives show up?

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