A missing woman who planned on moving out of an apartment she shared with her ex-boyfriend was found stuffed in a suitcase in Yonkers Thursday morning, according to sources and her family.
Pamela Alcantara, 26, was last seen in her Fordham Heights building in the Bronx on Sunday before mysteriously disappearing, cops said.
Alcantara last spoke to her mother on FaceTime early Sunday and said she was set to head to a church service but never showed up, her family told News 12.
Pamela Alcantara, 26, was discovered dead inside a suitcase after going missing on Sunday, according to sources. News 12
Alcantara was seen on surveillance footage entering an elevator but never leaving the building. News 12Surveillance footage obtained by the outlet shows her walking into the elevator but never leaving the building.
Her desperate family plastered her photos outside the Morris Avenue and East 182 Street apartment and prayed for her safe return.
Instead, her body was discovered by police inside luggage off the Saw Mill River Parkway near Yonkers Avenue and Palmer Road in Yonkers around 9:50 a.m., according to sources.
Cops on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers, NY, on Thursday. Peter Gerber
Alcantara’s worried family plastered missing person posters outside her Bronx building. News 12
A makeshift vigil popped up outside Pamela Alcantara’s Bronx home Thursday night. Peter GerberHer kin said Alcantara lived on the fifth floor with her former lover and was going to change apartments without him.
Sources said the ex was taken into police custody after a license plate reader caught his car near where her body was discovered.
He was charged with kidnapping and murder later Friday.
Alcantara’s family was left grief-stricken following the gruesome discovery.
“We are all devastated because this should have never happened,” a relative told News12.
“She was only 26 years old and had her whole life ahead of her.”
