Body-dump video
Grim Qns. death of tragic preg gal pal
Disturbing surveillance images released Tuesday show a man dragging his pregnant girlfriend’s lifeless body from a car and dumping her on the side of a Queens highway.
The clip, tweeted by NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison, allegedly depicts 29-year-old Goey Charles yanking Vanessa Pierre, also 29, out of a light-colored car and leaving her by the Horace Harding Expressway in Bayside shortly before 3 a.m. last Friday.
Queens prosecutors said Pierre was still moving in the back seat of the 2019 white Dodge Challenger — but is seen motionless after Charles opens the rear door and reaches inside.
He’s shown getting back in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, which was registered in Pierre’s name, before the video cuts off.
Pierre, a nurse practitioner, was six months’ pregnant with Charles’ child, a girl, whom she would have named Libby Egypt, her sister, Melissa Pierre, 27, told the Post Tuesday.
“She was very excited about the baby,” Melissa said. “She loved him and she wanted a family but I told her this man is not it.
“I kept telling her . . . something was just off about him. He was a pathological liar. They moved really fast, been together about a year, less than that. From what it looked like, it looked like he wasn’t really working.”
A passerby found Pierre’s body at about 6 a.m. and called police, the Queens District Attorney’s Office said.
Charles was picked out of a photo array and arrested Monday.
“This is a heartbreaking case,” DA Melinda Katz said in a statement. “A pregnant woman was allegedly killed by this defendant — the father of her unborn child. Her family is devastated.”
The city Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Tuesday morning that Pierre had been strangled.
She died of asphyxia due to compression of the neck, and the death has been ruled a homicide, a spokeswoman said.
Pierre had a sweatshirt wrapped around her neck and was dressed in an orange shirt and red pajamas, with a sock on one foot, police sources said at the time.
Authorities arrested Charles, of Uniondale, LI, at 6 p.m. Monday, cops said. He was charged with second-degree murder. Pierre lived in neighboring Hempstead, cops said.
Vanessa never got “into altercations with anybody” or even raised her voice, her sister said.