Police Search Bar for St. Guillen Clues

New York Police and crime scene investigators, some wearing protective clothing, searched for several hours Sunday at the bar where Imette St. Guillen was last seen alive, and searched a commercial space above the bar.

Police served a search warrant on The Falls, a bar where Guillen was last seen around 4 a.m. Feb. 25. Authorities did not say what they were looking for in their search.

Saturday, investigators went door-to-door in the SoHo neighborhood where the bar is located to try to locate someone who might have seen Guillen as she left the bar. Several surveillance cameras in the area did not pick up her leaving the area, police said.

Guillen, 24, was raped, sodomized, tortured, strangled and suffocated sometime after she left the bar. Her body was dumped in a vacant lot in Brooklyn bound with packing tape and wrapped in a bedspread.

Around 200 people attended funeral services for Guillen Saturday in Jamaica Plain, Mass. "You were and are the love of my life," said her mother, Maureen St. Guillen. "When I need to speak to you it will be private. I will go into my heart, where you will always be."

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Earlier Article:
Clues Sought in New York Student's Rape, Death

Background:
Profile of Imette St. Guillen