This guy was a suspect from the start. The floor she was found on was restricted access.
Elevator Operator Arrested in Manhattan Cleaning Woman's Murder
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City police have arrested an elevator operator in the slaying of a cleaning woman whose body was found stuffed in an air-conditioning duct in a Manhattan high-rise.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says Joseph Pabon was taken into custody at 7:30 p.m. Police pulled him over after he left his Staten Island home in a car with two others people. Charges were pending.
Police found the body of Eridania Rodriguez last week after discovering blood leaking from the ventilation shaft at the building near the World Trade Center site.
Police say she had been bound and gagged and had a gold crucifix taped to her mouth.
Rodriguez, 46, was the sister of professional bodybuilder Victor Martinez. She was a native of the Dominican Republic who lived in upper Manhattan and was married with several children.
She made her last appearance on security videotape entering an elevator at the skyscraper about 7 p.m. Tuesday. Her cleaning cart was found on the eighth floor.
Rodriguez worked on some vacant floors in the 400,000-square-foot building, and relatives said the emptiness had unsettled her and them.
The atmosphere "is like a creepy place, empty, you know you're working in a place there's nobody but you," brother-in-law Rafael Dicent said last Sunday.
He and others in the family went to the building to look for Rodriguez shortly after her disappearance.
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