Police in Arizona have arrested a “maniac” wanted for the brutal death of a sex worker inside a New York City hotel earlier this month where he allegedly beat her with an iron and strangled her before leaving the scene in the victim’s leggings.
Raad Almansoori, 26, is wanted by the NYPD for the horrific killing of 38-year-old Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, a mother of two who was found dead inside the SoHo 54 Hotel on Watts Street on Feb. 8.
Oleas-Arancibia’s body was on the floor under a blanket and bits of plastic were found embedded in her skull, police said. The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide due to blunt force trauma.
Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, left, and Raad Almansoori, center and right. Almansoori is accused of killing Oleas-Arancibia with an iron. (Fox 5, Surpise Police Department and NYPD)
Oleas-Arancibia came to the United States five years ago with her 18-year-old son while she left her other son behind.
Edwin Cevallos, Oleas-Arancibia’s son, told the New York Post that his mother had been acting nervous and worried in the days leading up to her death.
She was “always working for us to give us the best life in this country,” Cevallos said.
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