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.
Strother, dressed in a white T-shirt and black sweatpants, stayed silent when asked about Encarnacion-Soto’s death, ignoring questions as police walked him from the 46th Precinct to a waiting vehicle with his hands cuffed behind his back.
The NYPD on Thursday released a photo of Strother, 27, and said he was the suspect in the slaying, after searching for him for more than a week.
Encarnacion-Soto was staying in the building on Grand Concourse near East 183rd Street with Strother and his mother, 54-year-old Naida Jorge, who was also charged in the case, cops said.
Cops took Strother into custody on Friday after a person who saw the video and photos notified authorities, but he was hospitalized after his arrest, police said. A police spokesman couldn’t say why Strother was taken to the hospital.
Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya
