A twist in the Linda Stein murder case
There are new developments in the death of late 'real estate agent to the stars' Linda Stein.
Blood found in the sink could prove that a man was involved in Stein's murder. Investigators say the blood contains DNA from her and a man.
The person accused of killing Linda Stein is her female assistant Natavia Lowery.
This keeps getting deeper and deeper!
NEW YORK (AP) -- The lawyer for a woman accused of beating real estate agent and former Ramones band manager Linda Stein to death said Tuesday the city's medical examiner found male DNA in a bathroom sink mingled with the slain woman's blood.
Attorney Ronald Kuby, whose client is murder suspect Natavia Lowery, said this information was in a January 11 medical examiner's report that prosecutors sent to him. He said it stated there was a "mixture of DNA from the victim and a male."
Kuby suggested in a March 25 letter to Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Micki Scherer, the judge hearing Lowery's case, that the male DNA came from Stein's killer. He said the man likely left the DNA while cleaning up after killing Stein.
The lawyer also said that while Stein's blood was spattered around her $3 million Fifth Avenue apartment, not a drop of her blood was found on Lowery's clothing.
Medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said she had no comment on Kuby's statements.
Lowery, 26, is charged with beating Stein, 61, to death with a heavy stick in her penthouse around 12:45 p.m. on October 30. Surveillance cameras show Lowery leaving the building around 1:15 p.m.
Kuby has said the surveillance camera tapes prove Lowery's innocence. He filed with the court a medical examiner's report saying Stein's daughter, Samantha Wells, told police she spoke to her mother by telephone around 2 p.m. on October 30.
"If there is evidence that Linda Stein was alive and well after defendant Lowery left the premises," Kuby said in court papers, "then Ms. Lowery could not have been the killer."
Stein, once a co-manager of the rock group the Ramones, also was a real estate agent whose deals with clients who included Sting, Steven Spielberg and other show business figures earned her the nickname Realtor to the Stars.
She was found face down in a pool of blood in her apartment around 10:20 p.m. on October 30. She had scalp cuts and a fractured skull.
Lowery, after a lengthy interrogation that Kuby says was illegal, gave police a statement admitting she beat her employer to death. She is jailed without bail and is due back in court Wednesday.
Manhattan district attorney's office spokeswoman Barbara Thompson said she had no comment on Kuby's statements.
