Police Release Surveillance Video of Man With Suitcase Containing Woman's Body

Here's the surveillance video we mentioned earlier, of a man transporting a suitcase that contained a woman's body. The woman was found in front of 435 East 114th Street on December 22 at 12:15 a.m., and was pronounced DOA. It's been determined that she was a 20- to 30-year-old black woman, and that her death by asphyxiation was a homicide.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. All calls are strictly confidential.

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Police Seek Elderly Brooklyn Man, Missing, Who Suffers Dementia

?The NYPD is asking for the public's help locating Robert McFarlane, who is 80 and suffers from dementia. McFarlane has been missing since November 8 at approximately 6 a.m.; he was last seen at his residence at 111 Truxton Street, Brooklyn. He's described as 5'6" tall and 132 lbs, with a medium complexion, brown eyes, grey hair, and a thin build. He was last seen wearing beige corduroy pants, a red plaid shirt, a brown crew neck sweater, a beige baseball hat, and tan Timberland boots. If you have any information, please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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Ray Kelly's Publicity Piggy Bank: The Police Foundation

?In what is a fairly shocking disclosure, Leonard Levitt's NYPD Confidential reports today that the Police Foundation has spent $400,000 on a publicist who spent most of his time flacking for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and introducing him to celebrities and rich folks and get onto that red carpet.

That disclosure comes on the heels of the report that the foundation also pays Kelly's dues at the tony Harvard Club and picks up the tab for his meals there. Kelly has said through a spokesman that he conducts police business only at the club, but his guests have included newspaper editors, top public relations executives and even a police historian, Levitt reports.

The Police Foundation publicist Hamilton South gets $100,000 a year to do his job, but he's really working for Kelly, Levitt reports, in part helping him raise his profile for a run at the mayor's office.

As Levitt points out, the Police Foundation was founded to buy equipment and fund programs for the NYPD; not to act as the commissioner's secret bank account. Kelly hasn't reported these gifts on his city financial disclosure forms, nor has he said who exactly he entertained at the club.

South, Levitt reports, got favorable press coverage for Kelly, and introduced him to such luminaries as Barry Diller and Ivanka Trump.

Levitt says that Kelly didn't report the foundation benefits because he "doesn't report anything to anybody." Mayor Bloomberg "has allowed the NYPD under Kelly to become more closed to the public than at any other time in at least the past 30 years," Levitt writes.

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Police seek suspect in the Homicide Queens

Saturday, October 23, at 9: 55 p.m., police responded to a call 911 flight from the threat of a weapon a deli 220-23 Merrick, boulevard Queens. They found Juan Torres, 54, avenue Brooklyn, fall unconscious with a bullet in the head. It was pronounced DOA. Police have published a sketch of the suspect, described as a black man, 40-45 years old, 6'0 "to 6'2 '' tall and approximately 200 pounds. He was wearing a black shirt at the time of the crime. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). All calls are strictly confidential.

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