(New York, USA) - Priscilla Pimentel, 24, was found murdered in her Richmond Hill apartment by relatives from Pennsylvania on November 24 who went there after days of being unable to reach her and her failure to show up for Thanksgiving. She was bound in her bathtub, stabbed repeatedly, and her body "was smeared with mint green paint," the New York Times reported. She lived alone and there was no sign of forced entry. Also killed was her pet Jack Russell terrier. Pimentel, known as "Peaches," who worked as a bartender in Queens, "had been involved with a woman" who had met her family twice, but they were said to have broken up several months ago. According to the newspaper, "A gay pride flag was spread across the bedroom floor, below the blood-streaked walls."
