Crime & Safety

Trial Set for Man Accused of Burying Woman's Remains in Teaneck

Bronx man already pleaded guilty to strangling his former girlfriend in 2008. Prosecutors say he was trying to hide dismembered remains in a Teaneck home when police were called.

The trial of a Bronx man who strangled and dismembered his ex-girlfriend before trying to hide her body parts in a Teaneck basement is set to begin in Hackensack Wednesday, according to reports and court documents.

Julio Flores, 36, is already serving 19 years to life on a second-degree murder charge in New York for killing the woman, Jaritza Calderon, after luring the aspiring nurse to his apartment in September 2008.

Prosecutors in Bergen County are pursuing charges of burglary, hindering apprehension and unlawfully disturbing human remains against Flores, which could add another 10-year prison term, NorthJersey.com reported.

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After killing Calderon, Flores decapitated his former lover and put her body parts in a garbage bags, according to court documents. He drove to a vacant home on Ardsley Court where he had done construction and entombed Calderon’s remains in concrete when the property owner called police.

Court papers show Teaneck police ran a license plate check and learned he was wanted by New York City authorities for possibly kidnapping Calderon, who was reported missing. Flores, the court documents said, calmly told responding township officers he had killed his ex-girlfriend.

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At sentencing in 2010, Acting Bronx Supreme Court Judge Ann Donnelly said the slaying was one of “astonishing brutality,” the New York Daily News reported.

"Not only did you strangle this woman, you then chopped her up,” the judge said.

Flores has been serving his sentence at the maximum security Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., but was transferred to the Bergen County Jail in February to face the New Jersey charges. 


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