Suspect arrested in student's Miami disappearance
BY MICHAEL WHITE
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU
Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 11:46 AM
Stepha Henry, 22, (center) has been missing since May, when she vanished on a trip to Miami to visit relatives.
Stepha Henry, 22, (center) has been missing since May, when she vanished on a trip to Miami to visit relatives.
Detectives arrested a Brooklyn man suspected of killing a woman who vanished last year while visiting relatives in Miami, police said today.
Kendrick Williams, 32, was nabbed this morning after forensic tests of his car linked him to the victim, police said.
NYPD officers and detectives from Miami took Williams into custody about 8 a.m. at the Canarsie Pier in Brooklyn where he had been living out of a car. He was charged with murdering 22-year-old Stepha Henry, an aspiring lawyer who was last seen May 29 at Peppers Cafe Nightclub in Ford Lauderdale.
Henry and her 16-year-old sister had traveled to Florida just before Memorial Day to celebrate her sister’s birthday. They were staying with relatives, who last saw Henry getting into a black sedan driven by a man.
Florida police said Williams drove Henry to the club in an Acura Integra. He had initially told detectives he left the venue without Henry, police said.
Investigators impounded the car last September, and a forensic analysis found substantial evidence linking him to the victim, police said.
The two were believed to have been romantically involved, police said.
Henry, a graduate of Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, had been preparing to take the entrance exams for law school when she vanished, her relatives said.
Her body has not been recovered. Police have not said how she was killed.
Source: NY Daily News
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