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Abducted Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark's body found, appears to be suffocated:
Stark, 39, is believed to have to been abducted from outside his office on Thursday evening, and authorities now say a badly burned body they discovered on Long Island is the missing man. A police source says Stark died of suffocation, and cops are now working to determine if any of his financial dealings led to his murder.
The search for an abducted Brooklyn landlord came to a gruesome end when his smoldering body was found in a dumpster outside a Long Island gas station, authorities said Saturday. Now cops are focusing on Menachem Stark’s business associates and contacts to determine whether any of his financial dealings led to his murder.
“We knew from (Friday) it could end this way,” a police source said of Stark’s death. “When you look at his business dealings, you see a lot of red flags. Obviously he had many enemies.”
Stark, 39, who a source said died of suffocation, suffered a string of foreclosures in recent years on apartment buildings he owned with partners. Investigators believe he may have been involved in a scam, selling the foreclosed properties on the cheap to his own associates.
Stark had just left his Rutledge St. office around 11:35 p.m. Thursday when two men grabbed him, bound him with duct tape and tossed him into a light-colored Dodge Caravan. Surveillance video shows the kidnappers speeding off in the midst of heavy snowfall.
Sources said Stark — who was known to carry large amounts of cash, despite mounting financial woes — had $4,000 in his wallet when he was snatched off the street outside his South Side Associates office.
As relatives prayed for a miracle, Stark’s burning body was found just before 4 p.m. Friday at a Getty gas station in Great Neck — 16 miles from where the tragic drama began.
Stark was burned from the waist down, a source said.
It was unclear how he was suffocated.
“Right now the detectives are trying to figure out how it happened, whether it was the duct tape or they choked him,” a police source said.
Abducted Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark's body found, appears to be suffocated:
Stark, 39, is believed to have to been abducted from outside his office on Thursday evening, and authorities now say a badly burned body they discovered on Long Island is the missing man. A police source says Stark died of suffocation, and cops are now working to determine if any of his financial dealings led to his murder.
The search for an abducted Brooklyn landlord came to a gruesome end when his smoldering body was found in a dumpster outside a Long Island gas station, authorities said Saturday. Now cops are focusing on Menachem Stark’s business associates and contacts to determine whether any of his financial dealings led to his murder.
“We knew from (Friday) it could end this way,” a police source said of Stark’s death. “When you look at his business dealings, you see a lot of red flags. Obviously he had many enemies.”
Stark, 39, who a source said died of suffocation, suffered a string of foreclosures in recent years on apartment buildings he owned with partners. Investigators believe he may have been involved in a scam, selling the foreclosed properties on the cheap to his own associates.
Stark had just left his Rutledge St. office around 11:35 p.m. Thursday when two men grabbed him, bound him with duct tape and tossed him into a light-colored Dodge Caravan. Surveillance video shows the kidnappers speeding off in the midst of heavy snowfall.
Sources said Stark — who was known to carry large amounts of cash, despite mounting financial woes — had $4,000 in his wallet when he was snatched off the street outside his South Side Associates office.
As relatives prayed for a miracle, Stark’s burning body was found just before 4 p.m. Friday at a Getty gas station in Great Neck — 16 miles from where the tragic drama began.
Stark was burned from the waist down, a source said.
It was unclear how he was suffocated.
“Right now the detectives are trying to figure out how it happened, whether it was the duct tape or they choked him,” a police source said.