NYC woman accused of killing super used a pipe, tried to dismember lifeless victim before stashing body under bed: DA

The Queens woman accused of killing her building’s superintendent this week used a pipe in the sickening attack – and even tried to dismember the lifeless victim before stashing his body in garbage bags underneath a bed, prosecutors said. Sandra Coto-Navarro, 48, was charged with second-degree murder in the deadly attack on 55-year-old Jose Portillo, who was trying to collect $24,000 in unpaid rent from the woman and her husband, cops and prosecutors said. Coto-Navarro – who was home alone in the Kew Gardens unit when she allegedly carried out the murder – used a pipe in the slaying and claimed that it wouldn’t be an issue because “her fingerprints won’t be on it,” according to cops and a criminal complaint. A doctor from the city medical examiner’s office determined that Portillo suffered “multiple blunt force trauma injuries” on his head, and that a “heavy object” was used to inflict those injuries, the court document said. The victim also suffered “post-mortem sharp force injuries to his neck and left leg near the knee,” the doctor found. Around 8:40 a.m., Portillo had gone inside the 70th Avenue apartment here Coto-Navarro lived with her husband to talk about the rent they owed, according to sources and prosecutors.The owner of the property told investigators he saw Portillo go into the couple’s apartment, but never saw him leave, according to the sources. Portillo’s brother requested a wellness check when he still hadn’t emerged, the sources said.The first time an officer responded to the couple’s unit, Coto Navarro allegedly claimed that Portillo was there earlier in the day, that she paid him $23K and he left, according to the complaint. But surveillance footage debunks that story because it never shows him leaving, the court docs say. When the officer returned, the woman’s husband – who was not charged in connection to the murder – led them “right to the body,” a police source said.Portillo’s body was...