Eric Gonzalez, the acting district attorney of Brooklyn made public the case about a man, 42 years of age who is being charged with the murder as well as dismemberment of his spouse. The defendant pled guilty admitting to the crime and told that he used a saw to dismember the body and got rid of the body parts by throwing them in different trash cans.
The acting DA released a statement saying that the allegations made against the defendant were pretty serious and he was later found guilty of committing this barbaric crime.
The acting DA acknowledged the culprit as 42 years old Phillip Martin, resident of Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn. Matthew D’Emic, the Supreme Court Justice of Brooklyn led the arraignment on 2nd degree murder (one count), second degree man slaughter (one count) and human corpse concealment (one count). The defendant is being held in custody without the right to bail and is scheduled to appear in the court on 4th May, 17. If convicted, the defendant is looking at a prison time between 25 years to life.
Gonzalez also acknowledged the fact that it was February’s second week when Diana Rodriguez, victim’s relative got worried about not hearing from her and showed up at defendant’s place looking for her. There, the defendant told her that she left a month ago but his story appeared to be far from the truth. It tipped her off and she reported it to the authorities.
ON February 16, 2017, when the defendant got arrested, he immediately began making statements to the authorities about what had occurred. He told the police that he murdered his wife some time around 14th January, on his birthday and then decided to keep her dead body in his living room for almost a week. Then he decided to get rid of her body by using a saw to dismember her remains, put the parts in garbage bags and threw them out in the trash cans.
Erin Pignatelli from the Detective Squad of 70th Precinct and Joseph Perry of the Brooklyn Homicide Squad led this investigation.
Joanna Lettieri, the Senior ADA is prosecuting the case under the jurisdiction of DA’s domestic violence bureau and it is being supervised by Michelle Kaminsky, the ADA.
