‘LEFT TO ROT’
Bx. woman found dead; cops seek boyfriend
Grieving relatives are demanding answers after a Bronx mom’s stabbed, decomposing corpse was found in her apartment.
“She didn’t deserve that,” said Ana Javier, 29, the sister of 33-year-old victim Cindi Olivo. “She didn’t deserve being left to sit and rot in her apartment. Whoever did this is a coward. He has no heart at all.”
Police found Olivo’s corpse on the bedroom floor of her apartment on University Ave. near W. Fordham Road in Fordham Heights Friday night.
She died from two stab wounds on each side of her neck, police sources said, and her death has been deemed a homicide. The city medical examiner did not reply to multiple requests for information on the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of her death.
Olivo’s body is so badly decomposed that it will need to be cremated, denying her family the opencasket funeral they prefer, relatives said. Olivo’s 14year-old daughter has been hit especially hard by the slaying.
“All she says is that she wishes she could see her mother for the last time, even if it’s in a casket,” Javier said. “She will never get that closure that she wants.”
Javier plans to help the teen’s father raise her.
Detectives are looking to speak with Olivo’s boyfriend, who they have declared a person of interest in her death, sources said.
“He was very weird, very strange, always distant, he was always very isolated to a corner,” Javier said of the boyfriend. “But we didn’t pay mind to that, we were just happy she was around.”
“She was someone I looked up to,” Javier said of her sister. “She was a loving girl. Such a family person, for any occasion she was always there, present. Before all this she was always around, always happy, always had a smile on her face.”
But Olivo pulled away from her family after she began dating the boyfriend a couple of years ago, relatives said. She also started using drugs, her sister said.
“She had distanced herself a little bit ago,” Javier added. “I guess it was because of the relationship she was in.”
Her family’s last memory of Olivo was her helping buy a junior dress for her daughter, who was set to graduate the eighth grade on June 22. Olivo was overjoyed and planned to spend graduation day with her daughter but never made it to the ceremony.
“I just want closure,” Javier said of the killing. “How did it happen? Why did they just leave her there to rot? It’s like they killed her but they killed everyone in the family also.”
Olivo moved into the Bronx apartment with her boyfriend just a few months ago. The family has not heard from the boyfriend since her death.
“She grew up with me since she was little — I raised her,” the victim’s aunt Iris Olivo said. “She was educated, well-mannered, joyful. A very joyful girl. She was always with her family.”