Ice-cold killer
Partied after taking life of ex-lover and son, 4
ACCUSED KILLER Isaac Infante’s Christmas gifts did not include a sense of remorse.
Infante, after leaving the strangled bodies of his son and ex-lover in their Harlem apartment, partied hearty and celebrated Christmas with his relatives, officials said.
Infante, 23, was jailed without bail Wednesday as horrifying details emerged about the cold-blooded double homicide of Felicia Barahona and his son Miquel just three days before the holiday.
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg, in a gruesome recounting, said Infante’s doomed son was left cowering in the bathroom after his mother was choked to death with an electrical cord on Dec. 22.
Infante “admitted taking a computer cord . . . and going to the bathroom where his son was crying and asking for his mommy,” said Blumberg. “The unsuspecting child had no idea he would be the defendant’s next victim.”
Before leaving the apartment, Infante left behind a red sweatshirt and donned a scarf that was once a gift from Barahona, sources said. He also placed the dead boy facedown in the tub, police said.
The killer returned from the Riverside Drive apartment to his home in Bethlehem, Pa., acting as if nothing had happened, according to prosecutors.
“In the days after the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and son, the defendant partied and celebrated Christmas with his loved ones,” Blumberg charged.
Defense attorney Allen Farbman said his client’s current state was at odds with the picture of a chilling killer described by prosecutors.
“He was crying, that’s all I can tell you,” he said after the Manhattan hearing. “He was crying. He was very sad.”
Infante faces two counts of first-degree murder. He admitted entering the apartment with the intention of murdering his son’s mom, sources said.
He and Barahona, 36, became lovers while Infante was a high school student and she was his teacher, with the woman delivering their child in August 2012.
The superintendent at Barahona’s building smelled a stench seeping from her apartment and called police.