A mother who immigrated to New York for a better life was bludgeoned to death in a hotel room. Her alleged killer’s crime spree didn’t end there
When Denisse Oleas-Arancibia immigrated from Ecuador to New York five years ago, all she wanted to do was provide a good life for her family.
The day before the 38-year-old sex worker was found dead on the floor of a hotel room in a swanky SoHo neighbourhood during New York Fashion Week was a “normal day,” her son recalled.
She made her son breakfast at their Queens home, blessed him with the sign of the cross and sent him off to school in a taxi.
Edwin Cevallos, 18, told the New York Daily News that he had no idea what his mother did for a living in order to give him a good life and to support the family they had left behind in Ecuador.
“My mom, she worked very hard,” Mr Cevallos said. “She was working all day. She was always working for us to give us the best life in this country.”
He knew that she went to Manhattan for work every day at 2pm. And he knew that she always returned home.
But on 8 February, she never came back.
Across the East River, a maid at the SoHo 54 Hotel on Watts Street entered room 1109 on the 11th floor despite the “Do not disturb” sign
