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BRONX, NEW YORK - A hulking maniac who allegedly tortured his 21-year-old girlfriend and left her to die in a Bronx stairwell was arrested Saturday after a days-long manhunt, police said.
Robert Strother was nabbed for allegedly tying Princesa Encarnacion-Soto to a bed and stabbing her from head to toe July 22 at a Fordham Heights building, cops said.
Strother was charged with murder, manslaughter, hindering prosecution, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence, cops said.
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Bronx man sought in girlfriend's murder, which police say his mother tried to cover up
Friday, July 25, 2025
A Bronx mother is under arrest and her son is being sought by detectives after police say she helped him cover up the brutal torture and murder of his girlfriend earlier this week.
The son, Robert Strother, 27, is being sought as a person of interest in the fatal stabbing of the girlfriend, who detectives believe he tortured in his mother's Bronx apartment for more than a week.
The girlfriend, 21-year-old Princesa Encarnacion-Soto, was stabbed multiple times, attacked with a hammer and then left for dead in a stairwell on Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect's mother, Naida Jorge, 54, was charged with murder and manslaughter on Thursday for allegedly cleaning up the crime scene and hindering efforts to find him.
Jorge was remanded Friday morning at Bronx criminal court.
She was initially treated as a witness, but police soon suspected she could have been involved after noticing a trail of blood into her apartment, where they recovered a garbage bag of bloody clothes.
Detectives believe Strother killed Encarnacion-Soto after holding her in his mother's apartment, tying her to a bed while stabbing, beating and hitting her with a hammer.
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