Man pleads responsible to homicide of ex-girlfriend after she ended relationship

A New York man has pleaded responsible to murdering and dismembering his ex-girlfriend and placing her severed head in a suitcase with a flower after she ended issues with him.

Damon Foy, 50, of Kerhonkson, pleaded responsible final week to second-degree homicide within the 2024 dying of Alberta Dale, 44, of Pennsylvania, based on the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office.

Between March 31 and April 1, 2024, Foy killed and dismembered Dale and was within the technique of disposing of her physique when regulation enforcement intervened, based on the district lawyer’s workplace.

The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office started investigating on April 1, 2024, after Dale’s members of the family in Pennsylvania contacted regulation enforcement as a result of they have been involved about her well-being, the district lawyer’s workplace mentioned. Deputies first carried out a welfare verify earlier than launching a lacking individual investigation.

Deputies first went to Foy’s condo on April 1, 2024, and located Dale’s automotive, based on the New York Post. The subsequent day, deputies returned to query Foy after a member of the general public discovered Dale’s telephone on the aspect of the street and turned it in to authorities, main investigators to suspect potential foul play.

“She’s in there,” Foy whispered to investigators once they arrived at his dwelling through the lacking individual investigation. “I killed her,” he added, based on courtroom paperwork cited by the New York Post.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for Foy’s dwelling and located a suitcase in a closet that contained the sufferer’s stays. Foy was then arrested and charged in reference to Dale’s dying.

After shining a flashlight on the suitcase, investigators “immediately noticed what appeared to be dried blood,” based on the paperwork.

“Officers opened the defendant’s suitcase and found Alberta Dale’s partial dismembered remains, including her severed head,” the courtroom paperwork learn, based on the New York Post.

“The remaining portions of her dismembered body were not located during the execution of the search warrant,” the paperwork add.

When he was later interviewed, Foy instructed investigators he “loved her,” based on the paperwork.

“The only thing she kept doing after the time throughout the whole relationship was just play me, play me like a fool, play me like a sucker, and just took advantage of the whole f–king system,” he mentioned.

“That’s it. I was told to leave my own home. I was told to leave my own f–king home, not a bill in her name, and I was told to leave my own f–king home. Get out. Then it all started coming clearer to me,” he added.

When requested concerning the flower within the suitcase, Foy solely mentioned he was interested by “what still happened last night to take s— over the top.”

Foy had a historical past of home violence towards Dale, based on courtroom paperwork cited by the New York Post.

Dale had beforehand warned authorities that “if she went missing it was because [Foy] killed her,” based on the courtroom paperwork.

Under a plea settlement, Foy is predicted to obtain 23 years to life behind bars, with a minimal time period two years shorter than the utmost of 25 years to life, based on the Daily Freeman.