MANHATTAN OFFICE CLEANER ERIDANIA RODRIGUEZ DISAPPEARS FROM HER JOBSITE – she may have been kidnappe

[Omaha Steve]

http://gangbox.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/manhattan-office-cleaner-eridania-rodriguez-disappears-from-her-jobsite-she-may-have-been-kidnapped-and-possibly-murdered-possibly-by-a-male-coworker/

from the NEW YORK TIMES:

By CHRISTINE HAUSER

Published: July 9, 2009

A mop and a hair clip. That was all Eridania Rodriguez’s co-workers found when she failed to join them for a break from cleaning a Lower Manhattan building late Tuesday.


Eridania Rodriguez

On Thursday afternoon, a lawyer and family friend said there was still no trace of Ms. Rodriguez, 46. The police said they suspected foul play and were trying to piece together how the Washington Heights woman vanished from the office tower at 2 Rector Street. They have not identified a suspect.

“What makes us suspect foul play is she’d not normally leave her clothes and belongings at the work site, so there is evidence that leads us to be concerned about her safety,” said the Police Department’s chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne.

Ms. Rodriguez was last seen in a surveillance video between 7 and 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, said Daniel Ferreira, the family friend and a lawyer for the missing woman’s brother Victor Martinez. A law enforcement source said the video shows her in her uniform — a blue jumpsuit — pushing her cleaning cart into an elevator.

Also around 7:30 p.m., Ms. Rodriguez spoke to her daughter by telephone, said Mr. Ferreira, who had been informed of events by Mr. Martinez. About 9 p.m., co-workers went to look for Ms. Rodriguez when she failed to join them for dinner, Mr. Ferreira said. They searched the floors where she usually cleaned. When they could not find her, they called the police, he said.

Ms. Rodriguez’s clothes and purse were found in a changing room on the 10th floor, and her cart was found on the eighth floor, the police said.

Ms. Rodriguez, of 107 Ellwood Street, had worked for about a year in the building, a 26-floor office building near ground zero, Mr. Ferreira said.

She had told relatives that she found it unnerving to work in the virtually empty building during her shift, which ran from about 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., he said.

Ms. Rodriguez also told relatives that she had been afraid of a former worker in the building who had been fired about a month ago but kept returning, Mr. Ferreira said.

A moving company was working on one of her floors on Tuesday night, he said. Mr. Browne confirmed that the city’s Department of Transportation was moving out of the building that night.

FULL story at link.

[HeresyLives]

1. They think she's in the trash.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police believe that a cleaning woman who vanished from a Manhattan high-rise may be dead, that her body was dumped in the trash and that she could turn up in a Pennsylvania landfill.

“We have reason to fear the worst,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/07/10/10093061-ap.html

[myrna minx]

2. How chilling. I hope she can be found and returned to her family safe and sound.

:-(

[lamp_shade]

3. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3964684