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| Federal Inmate Charged in 1992 Killing, Dismemberment |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/06/2003 |
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Humberto Taveras, 39, an inmate at the federal prison in Otisville, was arraigned July 9 on a charge of second-degree murder after the indictment was unsealed in Westchester County (N.Y.) Court, District Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced. Taveras pleaded innocent. The indictment alleges that Taveras shot and killed Jose Rosario, 33, in a Bronx apartment in 1992, then cut up the body in a bathtub and dumped the pieces in Yonkers. Pirro said Taveras was a drug dealer and the killing followed ''a dispute over drugs.'' Both men lived in the Bronx. ''It was a gruesome, horrific murder,'' Pirro said. ''This man let the blood drain from the victim's body while he went out to get a bite to eat, then he returned to chop it up. He prided himself on his ability to cut up a body.'' Teenagers on bicycles discovered foul-smelling plastic bags on Sept. 17, 1992, while riding through Tibbetts Brook Park. Police were called and found Rosario's remains. The medical examiner determined that the victim had been shot four times once in the eye and slashed across the throat. Though the killing went unsolved for nearly 10 years, Taveras was in trouble with the law for most of that time and is in prison until 2007 for conspiring to sell drugs, Pirro said. Meanwhile, the cold-case squad at the Yonkers Police Department renewed the investigation last year and ''was able to put together some evidence'' leading to Taveras, Pirro said without elaborating. ''He may be due to leave prison in 2007, but we will try this case long before he's released, and if convicted he faces life,'' Pirro said. ''Murderers should understand that just because there's a passage of time, it doesn't mean they've gotten away with it.'' |
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