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The main suspect in a decade-old “cold case” may finally be tied to the horrific *** of a 16-year-old Brooklyn honor student, according to reports.
Evidence has emerged that the man long-suspected of killing Chanel Petro-Nixon, who vanished on Father’s Day in 2006 and was discovered four days later strangled and stuffed in a garbage bag in Bedford-Stuyvesant, may be a serial killer, PIX11 reported.
The NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney’s office have focused their investigation on 29-year-old Vernon Primus, a former high-school classmate of the teen.
The station will air their report on Monday, detailing how investigators closed in on the man, three years older than Nixon, and why they believe he may be linked to even more unsolved murders.
Chanel Petro-Nixon vanished on Father’s Day in 2006 and was discovered four days later strangled and stuffed in a garbage bag in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
OPINION: 10 YEARS LATER, NO JUSTICE FOR CHANEL PETRO-NIXON
PIX11’s “Crime Watch Daily” reporter Mary Murphy traveled to St. Vincent in the Caribbean, where Primus was deported to after serving time in an upstate New York prison for violating a restraining order. There, Murphy spoke with the suspect’s ex-girlfriend Mewanah Hadaway, 24, who said Primus showed her news clippings of the Petro-Nixon case and spoke about killing a different girl — before he allegedly held Hadaway captive in a wooden enclosure.
After three months of captivity, Hadaway managed to escape by slipping a housekeeper a note, who reported the imprisonment to police. Primus was charged with kidnapping.
Chanel Petro-Nixon’s family and Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes attend a rally and vigil held in memory of the slain teen.
Primus, who was deported to his native island in June, was also charged with the *** of a St. Vincent real estate agent, Sharleen Greaves.
Police sources told Murphy they also believe Petro-Nixon was held prisoner before her ***. The straight-A student’s body was found “folded over in a fetal position” inside a garbage bag on Kingston Ave., not a mile from her Bedford-Stuyvesant home.
Primus lawyered up after 45-minutes of questioning and did not confess to killing the teen, Murphy reported.