Kathy Pinna
Christie D Neely article
POLICE ID WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN BAG
The woman found strangled and stuffed in a travel bag in the Bronx was identified yesterday as an ageless beauty who grew up in Washington Heights and had been living in New Jersey. Investigators believe Christie Neely, 36, who had a 14-year-old son, was killed in her Bayonne home and then her body was dumped near Riverdale, police sources said. Cops were seeking to question Neely's boyfriend in the case.
Neely's relatives, who gathered in grief last night at the St. Nicholas Ave. apartment where she was raised, described the beau as a jealous man who works as a golf caddie. "He had a dark side. He didn't even want her to go to work. He didn't want her to go anywhere," said Neely's mother, Clara, 60. "It seems like a bad dream. She loved people and they loved her back. She will always be loved." The victim's son, Jordan, was not told of his mom's murder. Still, the teen told his grandmother, "I know he killed my mother. I can't take it," Clara Neely said.
Christie Neely, one of six siblings, was a telemarketer who worked in midtown, her family said. "She was beautiful. She didn't age," said the victim's father, Clarence Neely, a retired carpet cleaner. A Department of Transportation employee discovered her body Saturday morning uner the Fieldston Road overpass of the Henry Hudson Parkway, police said. Neely lived in a two-family house in Bayonne.
- Daily News on Wednesday, April 11, 2007, page 10: Writen by Kerry Burke, Michael White, Alison Gendar, and Mike Jaccarino
The woman found strangled and stuffed in a travel bag in the Bronx was identified yesterday as an ageless beauty who grew up in Washington Heights and had been living in New Jersey. Investigators believe Christie Neely, 36, who had a 14-year-old son, was killed in her Bayonne home and then her body was dumped near Riverdale, police sources said. Cops were seeking to question Neely's boyfriend in the case.
Neely's relatives, who gathered in grief last night at the St. Nicholas Ave. apartment where she was raised, described the beau as a jealous man who works as a golf caddie. "He had a dark side. He didn't even want her to go to work. He didn't want her to go anywhere," said Neely's mother, Clara, 60. "It seems like a bad dream. She loved people and they loved her back. She will always be loved." The victim's son, Jordan, was not told of his mom's murder. Still, the teen told his grandmother, "I know he killed my mother. I can't take it," Clara Neely said.
Christie Neely, one of six siblings, was a telemarketer who worked in midtown, her family said. "She was beautiful. She didn't age," said the victim's father, Clarence Neely, a retired carpet cleaner. A Department of Transportation employee discovered her body Saturday morning uner the Fieldston Road overpass of the Henry Hudson Parkway, police said. Neely lived in a two-family house in Bayonne.
- Daily News on Wednesday, April 11, 2007, page 10: Writen by Kerry Burke, Michael White, Alison Gendar, and Mike Jaccarino
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