THIS MURDERER DESERVES THE DEATH PENALTY~SICK-O~
If this scumbag did indeed rape, torture, mutulate, and sodomize this girl in New York he needs to be given the death penalty and soon. No sitting on death row for 10 years. Just get it over with.If what has been told that this slime did to the woman is true it would make you want to vomit. She suffered greatly before she died.
Police Make Link Between Bouncer, Slain Student
By ADAM GOLDMAN, AP
AP Photos
Imette St. Guillen was found murdered Feb. 25. Darryl Littlejohn worked at the bar where the woman was last seen alive.
NEW YORK (March 12) - Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday authorities would seek an indictment against a parolee with a long rap sheet, the prime suspect in last month's gruesome slaying of a graduate student.
Blood found on the plastic ties used to bind Imette St. Guillen has been matched to a bouncer at the bar where she was last seen alive, the New York Police Department commissioner said.
Kelly said authorities would take that match and other evidence to a grand jury to get an indictment against Darryl Littlejohn. He didn't give a date for when the grand jury would get the case.
Littlejohn, in custody at a Rikers Island jail on a parole violation, had not been arrested in connection with St. Guillen's death as of Sunday afternoon.
The 41-year-old maintains his innocence. His attorney, Kevin O'Donnell, has said the parolee "feels like a scapegoat" and is "upset" because his picture has been published in newspapers across the country.
Littlejohn was a bouncer at The Falls bar, where the manager has told police he ordered him to escort the woman out when she stayed sipping a drink past the 4 a.m. closing time; he recalled hearing the pair arguing before they disappeared through a side door.
Sometime during the next 17 hours, the student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan was raped, strangled and suffocated. Her naked and bound body was found in a remote section of Brooklyn on Feb. 25 with a sock stuffed in her mouth and her head wrapped with packaging tape.
Kelly said the plastic ties were used to bind the 24-year-old's hands behind her back. He wouldn't comment on how blood got onto the restraints but said, "It is a very important piece of evidence for us."
Kelly said witnesses also reported seeing Littlejohn and St. Guillen leaving the bar together and records put his cell phone near where her body was found.
A St. Guillen family spokesman did not have a comment about the case on Sunday.
Records show Littlejohn's first brush with the law came at age 17, when he robbed someone with a shotgun. Over the years, he was convicted on drug and gun charges using names like Darryl Banks, John Handsome and Jonathan Blaze - the name of a comic book character.
His aunt Addie Harris has defended him publicly in the St. Guillen case, arguing, "Many people have a record, but that doesn't mean he committed that type of crime."
Littlejohn shouldn't have been working at the bar St. Guillen visited because the job kept him out past his 9 p.m. parole curfew.
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Cops: Lots Of Evidence In NYC Slay
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NEW YORK, March 24, 2006
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Darryl Littlejohn, March 23, 2006, pleading "not guilty" to killing Imette St. Guillen. (AP/Shirley and Andrea Shepard)
Fast Facts
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says fibers discovered on the tape on St. Guillen's head when her body was found are consistent with those from a rug and two fur-collared jackets – one mink, one rabbit – found in the defendant's apartment.
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(CBS/AP) Darryl Littlejohn has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree murder charges in the slaying of 24-year-old New York grad student Imette St. Guillen, who was found raped, bound and strangled in Brooklyn last month.
"Imette St. Guillen's horrific murder will not go unpunished," District Attorney Charles Hynes said in announcing the three-count indictment against Littlejohn, 41.
Littlejohn, who was being held on a parole violation while police built their case, was a bouncer at The Falls bar in Manhattan, where St. Guillen was last seen alive on Feb. 25th.
Hynes says Brooklyn prosecutors have never handled a crime "where there has been so much forensic evidence as the foundation."
There's so much evidence, says Hynes, that he thinks "someday this case is going to be taught at law school as a particularly special example of forensic testimony."
After the hearing, St. Guillen's sister wept as she read a statement thanking police for their efforts. St. Guillen was from Boston.
"New York was Imette's home," Alejandra St. Guillen said. "She loved the city and its people ... Imette was a good person, a kind person. Her heart was full of love. With Imette's death, the world lost someone very special too soon."
Police say DNA from the ties that bound the victim's hands link Littlejohn to her murder.
Police also say fibers discovered on the tape that was on St. Guillen's head when her body was found dumped in Brooklyn are consistent with fibers with three items in Littlejohn's apartment.
"This is an unusual finding, put it that way," said NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, outlining forensic evidence including "polyester rug fiber from carpeting of Littlejohn's residence along with brown mink hair from a jacket of his residence, and blue rabbit hair from a jacket collar in his residence are consistent with rug fiber, mink and rabbit hair that were found on the tape used on Imette's head."
Investigators furthermore maintain that cell phone transmissions show Littlejohn's phone was used to make a call from near the spot where the body was dumped, only an hour before it was discovered.
Kelly also says that an eyewitness has reported seeing a van - resembling one belonging to Littlejohn - making a U-turn at the place where the victim was found, not long before police found her.
A law enforcement source quoted by the New York Times says police have been focusing on the basement of Littlejohn's home as one place where the assault on St. Guillen might have happened.
If convicted, Littlejohn would face a maximum penalty of life in prison.
In an exclusive interview with WCBS-TV reporter Scott Weinberger, Littlejohn said from jail that police have "the wrong person" and he did not kill St. Guillen, although he did escort her from the bar at closing time, as he would anyone still on the premises at that time of night.
"The focus really shouldn't be on me, it should be on them finding who is really responsible for this young lady's tragic death," said Littlejohn, in the jailhouse interview broadcast Wednesday night.
Kevin O'Donnell, Littlejohn's attorney, has said that Littlejohn is being made a scapegoat because police have not been able to find the real killer.
"He continues to maintain his innocence," said O'Donnell, after Thursday's arraignment. "That's why he entered the plea of not guilty."
A manager at the Manhattan bar where St. Guillen was last seen alive has confirmed Littlejohn's story about escorting her of the bar at closing time — but the manager also told police he remembers hearing Littlejohn and St. Guillen arguing as they left.
Littlejohn says he has cooperated with the police from the beginning of the investigation and voluntarily gave authorities a DNA sample.
Littlejohn has a long rap sheet including robbery, drug and gun convictions, beginning at age 17, when he robbed someone with a shotgun. Over the years, he was convicted on drug and gun charges using names like Darryl Banks, John Handsome and Jonathan Blaze — the name of a comic book character.
Asked why police consider him a suspect, Littlejohn says it is "because I have a criminal background and I wasn't supposed to be there working."
"She was going on with her life to become, you know, somebody in this world and the family has to be devastated. I'm truly, I'm truly sorry what happened to this young lady, but they (police) have the wrong person," said Littlejohn.
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