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June 2nd, 2008, 08:04 AM
A man suspected of fatally slashing his girlfriend’s throat in their Chelsea apartment before killing himself, committed the horrific murder right after the woman broke up with him, the New York Post reports.
26-year-old Margaux Powers canceled her plans to attend a family gathering Thursday, the night she was killed, so she could tell her boyfriend, 34-year-old Jonathan Smith, that she was going to move put.
Powers was found dead Saturday night by her sister and a door attendant in the bathtub of the fifth-floor apartment at 235 W. 22nd St.
It seems that on the bathroom floor was an unsigned, one-page, handwritten note in which Smith apologized to his victim and her mother. Just two hours later, at 10:08 p.m. Smith leaped from 25 Broad St., his body splitting in two when it hit a flagpole while hurtling toward the pavement below.
Police investigators determined that Smith used a butcher knife from the apartment to slash Powers’ throat. Afterward, he cleaned the apartment and the knife, which he heated in the oven.
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Margaux Powers with her father Michael
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26-year-old Margaux Powers canceled her plans to attend a family gathering Thursday, the night she was killed, so she could tell her boyfriend, 34-year-old Jonathan Smith, that she was going to move put.
Powers was found dead Saturday night by her sister and a door attendant in the bathtub of the fifth-floor apartment at 235 W. 22nd St.
It seems that on the bathroom floor was an unsigned, one-page, handwritten note in which Smith apologized to his victim and her mother. Just two hours later, at 10:08 p.m. Smith leaped from 25 Broad St., his body splitting in two when it hit a flagpole while hurtling toward the pavement below.
Police investigators determined that Smith used a butcher knife from the apartment to slash Powers’ throat. Afterward, he cleaned the apartment and the knife, which he heated in the oven.
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Margaux Powers with her father Michael
http://www.enews20.com/news_Woman_Found_Slain_in_Chelsea_Bathtub_Boyfrien d_Kills_Himself_08356.html