What you should know
- A New York man was convicted Monday of killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently purchasing a life insurance policy in her name.
- Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man tried to collect the cash. Cory Martin watched crime shows like “Dexter” and “The First 48” to get tips on how to get away with killing the woman.
- The 36-year-old Queens resident was charged in the 2018 death of Brandy Odom, a 26-year-old whose body was found strewn in a Brooklyn park.
NEW YORK — A New York man was convicted Monday of killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name and then attempting to collect the benefits, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Cory Martin watched crime shows like “Dexter” and “The First 48” to get tips on how to get away with killing the woman, a sex worker he managed, an accomplice who testified during the two-week court trial. Brooklyn federal.
Martin’s attorneys did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Breon Peace, the federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, said the mandatory life sentence that comes with the main murder-for-hire charge is appropriate for a “horrific, cold-blooded crime” that had been carefully planned and motivated by greed.
“Martin saw the victim as a way to make money, trafficking her for commercial sex and then, after killing her with his bare hands, throwing away her sacrificed body parts as garbage so he could profit from her death,” he said. Peace in a statement.
The 36-year-old Queens resident was charged in the 2018 death of Brandy Odom, a 26-year-old whose body was found strewn in a Brooklyn park.
Prosecutors said Martin, Odom and the accomplice, Adelle Anderson, lived together in Queens.
They say Martin and Anderson fraudulently obtained two life insurance policies in Odom’s name the year before Martin strangled Odom in his bedroom in April 2018.
Anderson, who pleaded guilty to charges related to the life insurance scheme and the murder plot, testified at Martin’s trial that the two watched the true crime show “The First 48” before Odom’s death to avoid be caught. He also said Martin watched “Dexter,” a Showtime series about a fictional serial killer, according to Peace’s office.
The two then bought cleaning supplies, covered the entire bathroom with heavy-duty black trash bags and dismembered Odom’s body before disposing of it in Canarsie Park, Anderson testified.
In the days that followed, as the body parts were discovered and police launched an investigation, Martin conducted dozens of Internet searches for news articles, prosecutors said.
Martin and Anderson made several unsuccessful attempts to claim benefits from Odom’s life insurance policies and the two were finally arrested in 2020, according to prosecutors.
2024-03-05 06:11:22
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