Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum Found Dead in NYU Apartment: BoyFriend Arrested [Archive]

Riviera

08-08-2007, 06:37 PM

Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum Found Dead in New York University Apartment
By David Lohr

August 8, 2007

NEW YORK (Crime Library) — Authorities are investigating the death of Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, a 20-year-old woman whose badly decomposed body was found this weekend in her mother's Washington Square Village apartment.

On Sunday night a couple subletting the other bedroom of the two-bedroom apartment reported smelling a foul odor coming from Tumi's bedroom. When the building superintendent attempted to investigate the source of the odor, he found the door locked from the inside. Suspecting something was awry, he alerted the authorities to the situation.
Police officers arrived at the eighth-floor apartment around 10:00 p.m. The tenants stated that they had not seen Tumi since Wednesday, when she threw what neighbors described as a "wild party." Suspecting foul play, police officers entered the bedroom through an unlocked balcony window.

When police officers stepped inside the room, which according to ABClocal.go.com was littered with condom wrappers and beer bottles, they were overwhelmed by the stench of death. The source of the odor was quickly traced to some bedding sheets in a space between the bed and the wall. Upon closer investigation, the officers caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a body hidden within the soiled linens.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0807/0801_Tumi_McCallum.html

Mishell1383

08-08-2007, 09:32 PM

Tumi's boyfriend found and taken into custody

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-nyu0807,0,4834683.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

David_Lohr

08-09-2007, 12:23 AM

I wrote an update on the case today (Wednesday). It will be up on the site by noon tomorrow.

Gatos

08-09-2007, 08:35 AM

My daughter attends Mills College and is in the same class as Tumi. Going to Mills is such a life changing opportunity. My heart breaks for the family of this beautiful young lady. I'm just so sad that more and more we see what starts out as "love" turn into such a pitiful act of hatred. God bless us all.

As a poster here at CL, I'm not encouraged by the misinformation given out by the media. You would think that as journalists they would try to get the story straight. The newsday article says that Tumi is a NYU student. That is not true. She was on summer break from Mills College in CA. Classes are stating back up next week. The party was probably the last big hooray.

moo

Mishell1383

08-09-2007, 09:10 AM

Definitly a life taken to soon. Very tragic and heart breaking.

For Tumi :rose:
For Her Family and loved ones :rose:

odette

08-09-2007, 01:03 PM

NYU 'MURDERER' IN 'SORRY' STATE ~ BEGGED FORGIVENESS

By LARRY CELONA, DOUGLAS MONTERO and DAN MANGAN
NYPOST.com
August 9, 2007

The man charged with strangling the beautiful daughter of NYU professors during a jealous rage slashed his wrists after begging forgiveness for killing his ex-girlfriend, The Post has learned.

"I'm sorry!" Michael Cordero beseeched his brother-in-law Tuesday night as they stood atop the Amsterdam Houses project on the Upper West Side. .....

NYU 'MURDERER' IN 'SORRY' STATE (http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092007/news/regionalnews/nyu_murderer_in_sorry_state_regionalnews_larry_cel ona________douglas_montero________and_dan_mangan.h tm)

odette

08-09-2007, 01:10 PM

Riviera

08-09-2007, 01:17 PM

Michael Cordero Implicated in Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum's Murder
By David Lohr

August 9, 2007

NEW YORK (Crime Library) — Police have apprehended 23-year-old Michael Cordero in connection with the death of his estranged girlfriend, Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, a 20-year-old woman whose badly decomposed body was found in her mother's Washington Square Village apartment on Sunday.

At approximately 8:40 p.m. Tuesday, Cordero's relatives spotted him perched on the roof of his family's apartment building at West 62nd and Amsterdam. Police had been searching for Cordero since Monday, when he allegedly made statements to a friend, suggesting he knew something about Tumi's murder.

Concerned for his safety, Cordero's relatives quickly took the stairway to the roof, where they found him bleeding from his wrists. When they tried to approach him, Cordero ran down the stairway and out the front door of the building. Witnesses on the street called 9-1-1 after they watched Cordero — still bleeding — run down the street with his family in close pursuit.

The chase ended at West End Avenue and West 62nd Street, when Cordero ran into a Western Beef supermarket. Moments later, a uniformed officer arrived on the scene and took Cordero into custody. He was then transported to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was treated for self-inflicted wounds to his wrists. While in the emergency room, police say Cordero made statements to hospital workers, implicating himself in Tumi's murder.

According to a police spokesman, Cordero said, "I killed my girlfriend. I couldn't take it, so I tried to kill myself."

continued---->

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0807/0901_Tumi_McCallum_update.html

odette

08-09-2007, 01:18 PM

Woman Was Strangled, Medical Examiner Says

By CARA BUCKLEY
Published: August 9, 2007
NYTIMES.com

A 20-year-old woman whose body was found in a Greenwich Village apartment on Sunday was strangled and smothered with a towel, the medical examiner’s office ruled yesterday. Her boyfriend was charged with second-degree murder in the killing.

The developments came as the boyfriend, Michael A. Cordero, 23, remained under suicide watch yesterday after slitting his wrists on Tuesday.

Mr. Cordero tearfully confessed to hospital workers at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center late Tuesday that he had killed his girlfriend, Boitumelo McCallum, the police said. And hours before he cut his wrists, Mr. Cordero wept when friends asked him about his girlfriend, several of his friends said yesterday. ....... continued

Woman Was Strangled, Medical Examiner Says (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/nyregion/09body.html?ref=nyregion)

Mishell1383

08-09-2007, 01:20 PM

Mom's trip of sorrow

Returns to city from homeland amid more details of NYU slay

By NICOLE BODE, ALISON GENDAR and RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
NYDAILYNEWS

Thursday, August 9th 2007, 4:00 AM

The distinguished mother of the college sophomore murdered inside her Greenwich Village apartment completed her heartbreaking trip back to the city yesterday, as her daughter's alleged killer told cops in brutal detail how he choked the life out of the stunning coed.

Teboho Moja showed the strength she has gained from working as one of South Africa's leading anti-apartheid activists as she walked through Kennedy Airport with remarkable composure after returning from her homeland. ....

Mom's trip of sorrow (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/09/2007-08-09_moms_trip_of_sorrow-1.html)

I couldn't imagine walking in her shoes at that moment, it must have been like walking to the electric chair, the longest, hardest walk of her life. That poor mother and father, :rose:

What a piece of &%^@ that Michael Cordero is. Apparently If he couldn't have her, no one could. I'm glad he didnt succeed in taking his own life. Now he can face Tumi's family and her friends and than deal with the aftermath by the prison inmates, and go through the court process and hearing sad, horrible, heartfelt testimony, about what he did, and who he took from this world.

He'll get his in some form, someday.

odette

08-10-2007, 06:41 AM

Michael Cordero and Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum

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odette

08-10-2007, 09:39 AM

Student slay: Suspect Apprehended

by DAA''IYA L. SANUSI
Special to the AmNews
Originally posted 8/9/2007

How did a personable young lady go missing for days without anyone noticing? Boitumelo McCallum would be found after several days wrapped in a sheet with a bloodied face between the bed and the wall of an apartment that she shared with others. ....... continued at below link

Student slay: Suspect Apprehended (http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=81280&sID=4)

odette

08-10-2007, 09:50 AM

NYU mom sits in the death apartment

She's overcome by grief for hours as daughter's boyfriend faces slay rap

BY CHRISTINA BOYLE and RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Friday, August 10th 2007, 4:00 AM

The devastated mother of a slain 20-year-old beauty returned to her New York University apartment yesterday for the first time since her only daughter was strangled to death there last week.

Teboho Moja spent several hours inside the Greenwich Village apartment building, where Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum was murdered last week, allegedly by her scorned beau, Michael Cordero, 23.

Moja was joined by her ex-husband, Robert McCallum, an art education professor at NYU, later in the day. ... continued at below link

NYU mom sits in the death apartment (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/10/2007-08-10_nyu_mom_sits_in_the_death_apartment.html)

odette

08-10-2007, 10:20 AM

~:~ Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum ~:~

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:rose:

odette

08-11-2007, 12:53 PM

Slain SA woman was warned, friends say

Kashiefa Ajam
August 11 2007 at 09:42AM

Tumi McCallum's friends warned her to be careful of Michael Cordero, the man she loved, but the beautiful 20-year-old refused to listen to them. This week he confessed to killing the Soweto-born university student in a New York City apartment.

Close friends of the daughter of renowned South African political activist Teboho Moja, now living in New York, revealed that they feared for her safety in her relationship with an American man described as a stalker. ... continued at below link

Slain SA woman was warned, friends say (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20070811083522738C369274)

odette

08-11-2007, 12:59 PM

NYU FIEND: 'I STRANGLED HER' WITH BARE HANDS

By LAURA ITALIANO and JANA WINTER
nypost.com

August 11, 2007 -- "I strangled her," the monster admitted.

Manhattan prosecutors yesterday gave a bone-chilling peek at the murder confession of the lover accused of squeezing the life out of beautiful Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, 20.

"I strangled her after a fight," Michael Cordero, 23, told cops, according to a summary of the confession read aloud at his arraignment.

"I wrapped her up and left her on the floor," he said.

"I cut my wrists," he added, a reference to the shallow swipes he made with a razor blade as cops came for him at his West Side apartment building Tuesday night. ... continued at below link

NYU FIEND: 'I STRANGLED HER' WITH BARE HANDS (http://www.nypost.com/seven/08112007/news/regionalnews/nyu_fiend__i_strangled_her_with_bare_hands_regiona lnews_laura_italiano_and_jana_winter.htm)

odette

08-11-2007, 01:13 PM

In Hospital, Boyfriend Is Arraigned in Killing

The New York Times
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: August 11, 2007

Michael Cordero entered a cramped, antiseptic room inside Bellevue Hospital Center yesterday afternoon and sat down in a blue plastic chair.

Wearing pale hospital pajamas and hugging his arms tightly to his waist, he faced a screen and a small video camera that transmitted his image to a screen in the Criminal Court building on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan, where he was arraigned on charges of killing his girlfriend, Boitumelo McCallum, 20, and stealing some of her property. ... continued at below link

In Hospital, Boyfriend Is Arraigned in Killing (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/nyregion/11arraign.html)

*Nina*

08-13-2007, 12:58 AM

I can't believe that someone would kill their boyfriend/girlfriend in cold blood like that.. what's happening with the world today. I mean I know he grew up in the wrong place... where the criminal was in high rates, but that should not define a person. I mean he could've been a great kid just living in the wrong place.

Anyways, I just can't believe this. :shrug: :shrug:

odette

08-13-2007, 08:42 AM

BAD BOYS' LOVE YOU TO DEATH

New York Post
Andrea Peyser
August 13, 2007

excerpt
"Why did she stay with him? She limply attempted to distance herself from the man - failing to invite Cordero to a party the night before she was killed. But Tumi was ambivalent." ... continued at this link BAD BOYS' LOVE YOU TO DEATH (http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132007/news/columnists/bad_boys_love_you_to_death_columnists_andrea_peyse r.htm)

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PLAYING WITH FIRE: "Tumi" McCallum with her alleged killer, Michael Cordero.

Gatos

08-14-2007, 02:39 PM

It's really tough reading the linked articles. Once again the senselessness of a lovely young lady being taken from this earth makes me bow my head in disbelief. If I'm shedding tears, I can only imagine the total heart wrenching grief of those that knew her. Arrghhh! We need to hold our children closer to us.

moo

odette

08-15-2007, 05:04 AM

Beyond Recognition

By Anneli Rufus
Published: August 15, 2007
East Bay Express

She left Oakland, but violent crime followed her. Decomposed, beaten beyond recognition, the body of 21-year-old Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum — who attended Mills College last year — was found on August 5 wrapped in a sheet between a wall and a bloody, condom-wrapper- and bottle-strewn bed in a Manhattan apartment owned by her mother, NYU professor and anti-apartheid activist Teboho Moja, who was visiting her native South Africa at the time but has returned, inconsolable. ....

continued at this link: beaten beyond recognition (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-08-15/news/beyond-recognition)

odette

08-15-2007, 05:21 AM

Slain NYU beauty 'was full of joy'

'She was just about to blossom,' sez uncle as kin prepare for Tumi's funeral

BY RICH SCHAPIRO in Johannesburg and KERRY BURKE and DAVE GOLDINER in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Wednesday, August 15th 2007, 4:00 AM

The grieving uncle of Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum recalled the slain NYU beauty yesterday as "somebody who was just full of joy."

As heartbroken relatives prepared for her funeral tomorrow, Tshepo Moja said the family was having trouble coming to grips with the violent death of the vivacious McCallum, who seemed to have so much going for her. ...

continued at this link: Slain NYU beauty 'was full of joy' (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/15/2007-08-15_slain_nyu_beauty_was_full_of_joy.html)

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Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum, killed in the Village :rose:

odette

08-15-2007, 05:29 AM

NYU beauty & parents make sad journey to South Africa

BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, August 14th 2007, 4:00 AM

The heartbroken parents of slain NYU beauty Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum arrived in South Africa yesterday as the family prepared to bury her in the land of her birth.

Teboho Moja and Robert McCallum, both NYU professors, landed before dawn with the body of their 20-year-old daughter. ...

continued at this link: NYU beauty & parents make sad journey to South Africa (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/14/2007-08-14_nyu_beauty__parents_make_sad_journey_to_-2.html)

odette

08-15-2007, 05:36 AM

A thug's chance to be decent

NYDaily News
Michael Daly
Tuesday, August 14th 2007, 4:00 AM

On Thursday, Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum will be buried in her faraway homeland, where her parents once struggled against the evil known as apartheid.

McCallum was murdered here in New York as the result of a more intimate evil rooted in the same brutish denial of the right to life and liberty.

She was a 20-year-old woman who survived the oppressors of her early childhood in South Africa only to fall victim to an oppressor here who was all the more monstrous for pretending to love her. ...

continued at this link: A thug's chance to be decent (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/14/2007-08-14_a_thugs_chance_to_be_decent.html)

odette

08-15-2007, 05:42 AM

NYU beauty's old flame returned on fatal night

BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
NYDAILY NEWS

Monday, August 13th 2007, 4:00 AM

An ex-boyfriend of slain NYU beauty Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum said he spent the night with her, leaving just hours before she was brutally slain, a newspaper report revealed yesterday.

Paul Rocco, 27, said he "cuddled" with McCallum after a house party and feels guilty that the liaison may have fueled the anger of accused killer Michael Cordero. ...

continued at this link: NYU beauty's old flame returned on fatal night (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/13/2007-08-13_nyu_beautys_old_flame_returned_on_fatal_-2.html)

odette

08-16-2007, 06:28 AM

Tears for NYU beauty

On eve of Tumi's funeral, relatives gather in South Africa to pray & remember

BY RICH SCHAPIRO in Johannesburg and DAVE GOLDINER in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Thursday, August 16th 2007, 4:00 AM

Gathered around a flower-bedecked coffin, heartbroken relatives of Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum offered prayers and remembrances of the slain NYU beauty yesterday - the eve of her funeral.

Her tearful mom, Teboho Moja, sat on a sofa looking "very, very sad" as friends and family spoke in English and the local Setswana language.

continued at this link: Tears for NYU beauty (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/16/2007-08-16_tears_for_nyu_beauty.html)

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Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum :rose:

odette

08-17-2007, 11:38 AM

TEARS FOR TUMI
THRONGS AT S. AFRICA RITE

By HELEN GRANGE and MELODY BRANDON
Post Correspondents
August 17, 2007 -- JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa

It was not the homecoming anyone wanted.

Hundreds of relatives and friends shed bitter tears at a Johannesburg church yesterday as they mourned Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum ..

continued: TEARS FOR TUMI (http://www.nypost.com/seven/08172007/news/worldnews/tears_for_tumi_worldnews_helen_grange_and_melody_b randon___post_correspondents.htm)

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Mom Teboho Moja holds flowers at yesterday's
funeral for slain beauty Tumi McCallum.

odette

08-17-2007, 11:51 AM

Outpouring of grief for murdered 'Tumi'

Lee Rondganger
August 17 2007 at 01:07PM
Cape Times

excerpt
"Her name Boitumelo, which means happiness, epitomises the way the way she lived her life and the way she made those who were acquainted with her feel. Her brief but energetic life left a profound mark on all who knew her and the outpouring of love and grief at her death has been overwhelming," her parents wrote in her obituary.

continued: Outpouring of grief for murdered 'Tumi' (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20070817043646956C995648)

odette

08-17-2007, 09:06 PM

'We will love you always'

At funeral in South Africa, tearful kin remember joyous life of student

BY RICH SCHAPIRO in Johannesburg, South Africa
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, August 17th 2007, 9:38 AM

JOHANNESBURG - On the day she was brutally murdered, Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum walked onto the balcony of her Greenwich Village apartment and paused to consider the things she was grateful for, her brother believes.

"For a moment, she remembers her mother's strength, her dad's love ... and perhaps chuckles a little under the warm, New York sky at the beauty of life," Kabelo Moja said yesterday.

"This was to be her last morning on this Earth." ...

continued: 'We will love you always' (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/17/2007-08-17_we_will_love_you_always.html)

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Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum
on the cover of the funeral program.

odette

08-18-2007, 08:06 AM

NYU mom tells News of 'full life' cut short

BY RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, August 18th 2007, 4:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG - For 19 years, the mother of Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum always referred to her vibrant daughter as her "sweetie pie."

Teboho Moja would end her heartfelt phone calls and text messages from thousands of miles away with the same phrase: "Good night, sweetie pie."

But then, about six months ago, she began calling her only daughter a far more heavenly term for reasons she did not know at the time.

"I started calling her my angel," Moja told the Daily News yesterday in an exclusive interview inside her Johannesburg home. "I would say, 'Good night, my angel.'" ....

continued: NYU mom tells News of 'full life' cut short (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/08/18/2007-08-18_nyu_mom_tells_news_of_full_life_cut_shor.html)

odette

09-01-2007, 11:32 PM

MILLS COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THE BOITUMELO “TUMI” MCCALLUM MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

MILLS COLLEGE
Newsroom

Oakland, CA - Mills College announced today the establishment of the Boitumelo “Tumi” McCallum Memorial Scholarship Fund. This scholarship has been created to honor the life and accomplishments of Tumi McCallum, a 20-year-old student at Mills College whose life was tragically cut short by violence.

Known as a sweet, gentle, and intelligent young woman, Tumi was also a passionate advocate for social justice who had committed her life to building a better world. Mills Professor Julia Sudbury noted that “Tumi's early experiences as a young girl growing up in South Africa during apartheid greatly shaped her life and her commitment to racial justice.”

As an intern at Justice Now, an Oakland-based activist organization dedicated to “stopping violence against women and their imprisonment,” Tumi provided a lifeline to women in prison, advocating on their behalf to ensure they received essential services such as medical care. Tumi expressed to Justice Now staff members that she had found her life’s work.

The Boitumelo “Tumi” McCallum Memorial Scholarship has been created to provide opportunities for other young women to continue Tumi’s legacy of activism. Contributions to this fund will be used to award a scholarship in fall 2008 to a Mills College undergraduate student majoring in political, legal, and economic analysis (Tumi’s major) or in ethnic studies, where Tumi found passionate allies for justice. ...

continued: MILLS COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THE BOITUMELO “TUMI” MCCALLUM MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (http://www.mills.edu/news/2007/newsarticle08132007mccallum_scholarship_announced. php)

odette

09-01-2007, 11:47 PM

The Life of Boitumelo “Tumi” McCallum

The Visions to Peace Project
August 10th, 2007

A message from Cassandra Shaylor at Justice Now, 8/9/2007:

It is with great sadness that we write to our allies and friends about the recent death of one of our former interns, Tumi McCallum. We hope to shine some light on the person Tumi was, particularly given the extremely limited discussion of her life in media coverage of her death.

Tumi came to Justice Now through a class she took with Julia Sudbury at Mills College. While working with us, she provided invaluable assistance to people in women’s prisons in a number of extremely important ways. As an advocate, she provided a vital lifeline to the outside for people in prison. She corresponded with people in women’s prisons facing severe and life-threatening medical problems, providing them with crucial information and advice. Even after completing her required hours for school credit, Tumi continued her work with Justice Now, far surpassing what was initially required.

Her commitment combined with her skills allowed her to take on more complex work. .....

continued: The Life of Boitumelo “Tumi” McCallum (http://visionispower.org/2007/08/10/the-life-of-boitumelo-tumi-mccallum/)

odette

09-11-2007, 12:40 AM

Suspect denies guilt in NYU apartment slay of ex-girlfriend

ABC NEWS3
Associated Press - September 10, 2007 4:24 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) - A man accused of killing his former girlfriend pleaded not guilty today to second-degree murder although he told police he committed the crime.

Court papers say Michael Cordero admitted to police that he had killed 20-year-old Boitumelo (boy-too-MEH-low) McCallum. She was a student at Mills College in Oakland.

She was found strangled in her mother's New York apartment on August 5th.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=7052790&nav=9qrx

odette

09-11-2007, 12:50 AM

Defendant in Student’s Death Was Jealous, Prosecutors Say

NEW YORK TIMES
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: September 11, 2007

An unemployed and sometimes homeless security guard charged with strangling the daughter of New York University professors told investigators that he had been jealous because she invited other men but not him to her party, prosecutors said in court papers released yesterday.

Prosecutors said the homeless man, Michael Cordero, 23, made a videotaped statement in which he said that on Aug. 2, the night after the party, he had gone to the apartment in Greenwich Village where his girlfriend, Boitumelo McCallum, 20, was staying.

They argued and he choked her to death, according to prosecutors’ written account of the statement.

Then, as if they were breaking up, he took a pair of dog tags inscribed with their names and put it in one of her hands and wrapped a towel around her body, according to the prosecutors’ account.

Ms. McCallum had given him the dog tags for his birthday, he told investigators.

“He had called her during the party, and could hear that there were men at the party,” the prosecutors’ account says. .....

CONTINUED
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/nyregion/11arraign.html?ref=nyregion

odette

09-11-2007, 12:56 AM

NYU apartment suspect pleads not guilty

MERCURY NEWS
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 09/10/2007 01:15:36 PM PDT

NEW YORK— A man accused of killing his former girlfriend, the daughter of two New York University teachers, pleaded not guilty Monday to second-degree murder. .....

EXCERPT
A judge scheduled Cordero's next court appearance for late October. He is being held without bail in a jail's psychiatric unit.

Cordero's lawyer, Eric Sears, has said he will probably try to prevent his client's admissions to police from being used against him because of Cordero's medical condition after the suicide attempt.

CONTINUED
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6853475

odette

09-11-2007, 07:26 AM

Ex-boyfriend placed keepsake in hand of dead girlfriend

NYDAILYNEWS
Barbara Ross
Tuesday, September 11th 2007, 4:00 AM

A Manhattan man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in a NYU faculty apartment last month stuck a love trinket in her hand before he wrapped her in a sheet and left her dead on the floor of her bedroom, according to court papers filed yesterday.

Michael Cordero told cops that after choking Boitumelo (Tumi) McCallum to death, he hit her in the face and chest and wrapped a towel around her head and a sheet around her body until he remembered a pair of dog tags she had given him for his birthday.

Cordero told police he unwrapped the 20-year-old Mills College student and tucked the dog tags, inscribed with their names, into her hand before wrapping her up again. .....

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/09/11/2007-09-11_exboyfriend_placed_keepsake_in_hand_of_d.html

Mishell1383

09-11-2007, 08:09 AM

He confessed to it. So why doesn't he be a man and plead guilty? Why can't he spare Tumi's family a little less grief on top of the pounds of heartbreak he has already caused them. Why? Because only cowards kill and cowards couldn't act righteous. :flamemad:

odette

09-12-2007, 11:45 AM

Family of slain student sets up scholarship fund in California

ASSOCIATED PRESS - 2:07 p.m. August 12, 2007

NEW YORK – The family of a college student found strangled to death and wrapped in a sheet has set up a scholarship fund in her honor at the California college she attended.

Teboho Moja, a New York University professor, said she appreciated the city's support after the grisly death of her 20-year-old daughter, Boitumelo McCallum, whose decomposed body was found a week ago in their Greenwich Village apartment. McCallum's ex-boyfriend has been charged in her death.
CONTINUED: Family of slain student sets up scholarship fund in California (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070812-1407-bodyfound-family.html)

odette

09-30-2007, 09:57 AM

MA SLEEPS IN ROOM WHERE TUMI WAS SLAIN

nypost.com - By ANGELA MONTEFINISE

September 30, 2007 -- The bed is gone - the bed where Teboho Moja's daughter, Tumi McCallum, was found slain at the hands of her estranged boyfriend in August.

But Moja is sleeping in her daughter's room anyway.

"This is my home, and it's where my daughter departed," she said. "I feel close to her here. I feel her presence all the time. At first, the memories were so intense, and my imagination thought of what happened here. But I've made peace with that.

"It helps me say goodbye to be here," she added. "I feel I'm doing the right thing."

It's been a long journey home for the heartbroken NYU professor.

After spending most of August in her native South Africa, Moja pulled a fold-out couch into her 20-year-old daughter's room in their Greenwich Village apartment. .....

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'CLOSE TO HER': NYU professor Teboho
Moja looks over sympathy cards in the
room where daughter Tumi
McCallum was slain.

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Tumi McCallum

Mishell1383

09-30-2007, 03:04 PM

MA SLEEPS IN ROOM WHERE TUMI WAS SLAIN

nypost.com - By ANGELA MONTEFINISE

September 30, 2007 -- The bed is gone - the bed where Teboho Moja's daughter, Tumi McCallum, was found slain at the hands of her estranged boyfriend in August.

But Moja is sleeping in her daughter's room anyway.

"This is my home, and it's where my daughter departed," she said. "I feel close to her here. I feel her presence all the time. At first, the memories were so intense, and my imagination thought of what happened here. But I've made peace with that.

"It helps me say goodbye to be here," she added. "I feel I'm doing the right thing."

It's been a long journey home for the heartbroken NYU professor.

After spending most of August in her native South Africa, Moja pulled a fold-out couch into her 20-year-old daughter's room in their Greenwich Village apartment. .....

continued
MA SLEEPS IN ROOM WHERE TUMI WAS SLAIN (http://www.nypost.com/seven/09302007/news/regionalnews/ma_sleeps_in_room_where_tumi_w.htm)

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'CLOSE TO HER': NYU professor Teboho

Moja looks over sympathy cards in the

room where daughter Tumi

McCallum was slain.

http://i21.tinypic.com/2rmtz0o.jpg

Tumi McCallum
What a brave, peaceful, sensitive, incredible, beautiful woman she is. :rose:

Deepwater

04-15-2008, 03:00 PM

test

FDInLaw

04-15-2008, 05:39 PM

testLooky there. . . you can still post. :biggrin:

:seeya:

One2Snoop

04-20-2008, 03:29 PM

What is Deepwater testing for? To see if David Lohr can still post here? Well he/she already took care of his posting privileges so it can't be that. :mad:

Anyhow I thought Deepwaters function here was to get rid of spam - seems he/she can't even keep up with that - :no:

http://boards.crimelibrary.com/showthread.php?p=9096131#post9096131

http://boards.crimelibrary.com/showthread.php?p=9096130#post9096130

http://boards.crimelibrary.com/showthread.php?p=9096128#post9096128

ETA: Oh forgive me - I see that you reinstated David Lohr's account but I can't blame him if he never comes back here after the way he was treated by you and Freshwater.