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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;">Video exposes California Bitcoin trader, who murdered and disposed of his girlfriend, with the help of a mutual friend, in Philippines</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Troy Woody Jr, 21, ‘strangled 23-year-old Tomi Michelle Masters to death’ in ; Mandaluyong City, near Manila Christmas week<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Woody Jr, 21, loaded the body hidden in a box into a cab with the help of his business partner, Mir Islam, 22, before ‘dumping her in a river’</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">The couple had been living together with Mir Islam in Manila, Philippines, but Masters allegedly had become tired of &#8216;the scene&#8217; and wanted to return home to Indiana</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Woody and Islam allegedly suffocated Masters then wrapped her naked body in duct taped her in a garbage bag, before stuffing it into a brown cardboard box</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Video shows Woody and Islam loading a brown box allegedly containing Masters&#8217; remains ;into the back of a taxi</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">They&#8217;re later seen manhandling the box, which they hurled into the Pasig River in Manila, Philippines, on December 23 at 2.40am</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Masters&#8217; body was found in the river after the cab driver called authorities and reported the pair&#8217;s suspicious behavior </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Police in Manila said both men are blaming each other for killing Masters, however both admit to dumping the body<br />
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<h6 class="vjs-flyout-control"><img class="" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Troy-Woody-Jr.-and-Tomi-Michelle-Masters-1.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Troy Woody Jr. and Tomi Michelle Masters 1" width="624" height="755"><strong>Bitcoin trader Troy Woody, Jr, [right], who has been arrested after allegedly murdering his girlfriend ; Tomi Michelle Masters, [left], with the help of his business partner, before the pair tossed her body into the Pasig river in Manila Philippines</strong></h6>
<div class="vjs-flyout-control">American Bitcoin trader Troy Woody, Jr. has been arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend ; Tomi Michelle Masters, 23, with the help of a friend, loading a large box said to contain her remains into the back of a taxi and then dumping her naked body in a river.<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rB-AQ9OmXCg" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><br />
Video shows a well-known American Bitcoin trader, Woody, 21, loading a large box said to contain her remains into the back of a taxi, then dumping.<br />
Troy Woody Jr.had been living with partner Tomi Michelle Masters, 23, and mutual friend Mir Islam, 22, in the Philippines.</div>
<div class="vjs-flyout-control">But friends said the couple fell out earlier this month and Masters made a desperate plea to return home to Indiana.<br />
Woody and Islam later allegedly suffocated Masters then wrapped her naked body in duct tape before stuffing it into a brown box.</div>
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<strong>Victim: Tomi Masters [photo], is said to have wanted to return home to Indiana before she was killed by her boyfriend with the aid of their roommate in Manila<br />
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<div class="vjs-flyout-control">The pair, who boast online about taking cocaine and spending vast sums on luxury goods, then ordered a Grab taxi on a phone app and then are believed to have hurled the box into the Pasig River in Manila, Philippines, in the early hours of ; December 23, around 2.40am.<br />
Both men returned to the taxi and continued to their destination, a large shopping mall called Robinson&#8217;s Place.<br />
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The cab driver, ; John Kenneth Quimba, later reported the suspicious passengers to local police who searched the river and found Masters&#8217; body covered in scratches, stuffed inside a garbage bag.<br />
Woody, who had been living in California, and Islam, who is from Brooklyn, were arrested later that afternoon and are being detained by the Manila Police District force at the headquarters.<br />
Police station head Superintendent Igmedio Bernaldez said both men are blaming each other for killing Masters, but they admit dumping the body.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Troy-Woody-Jr.-left-and-Mir-Islamright-2.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Troy Woody Jr. [left], and Mir Islam[right] 2" width="736" height="539">Circular firing squad: Troy Woody Jr [left] is accused of strangling Tomi Masters to death with the aid of their roommate Mir Islam [right]. The men are now blaming each other for the crime<br />
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Supt. Bernaldez said: &#8216;We have yet to establish the motive. The three were here on vacation.<br />
&#8216;If you ask the boyfriend, he will point to his friend as the killer. But if you ask the other suspect, he will say it was his friend who killed her.<br />
&#8216;They are being questioned and the home they were staying at is being searched for evidence.&#8217;</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Troy-Woody-and-Mir-Islam-loading-a-brown-box-believed-to-contain-Masters-remains-into-a-cab-in-Manila-Philippines.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Troy Woody and Mir Islam loading a brown box believed to contain Masters' remains into a cab in Manila, Philippines" width="640" height="350"><strong>Video showed Woody and Islam loading a cardboard brown box believed to contain Masters&#8217; remains into ; a taxi</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mir-Islam-and-Troy-Woody-can-be-seen-here-handling-the-large-brown-box-before-placing-it-in-the-cab-in-Manila-2.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Mir Islam and Troy Woody can be seen here handling the large brown box before placing it in the cab in Manila 2" width="801" height="431"><strong> ;Islam and Woody can be seen here handling the large brown box before placing it in the cab</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Friends of the couple said that Masters had become tired of &#8216;the scene&#8217; and deleted all pictures of her and Woody together from social media. She then expressed online her desired to return home.<iframe style="border: none;" src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?o=1&;p=48&;l=ur1&;category=motorcycleatv&;banner=1GTBWXZ6AWK39XVHDN82&;f=ifr&;linkID=17cef0367a1fbda76dfc41a503a44352&;t=konniemomen0a-20&;tracking_id=konniemomen0a-20" width="728" height="90" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />
According to Senior Supt. Moises Villaceran Jr., Mandaluyong police chief, the autopsy result showed that suffocation was the cause of death. It&#8217;s not clear if she was dead before being thrown in the river.</div>
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<strong>Troy Woody Jr who has almost 200,000 followers frequently flaunted &#8216;his wealth&#8217; on social media</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Police said that Masters and the two alleged killers had arrived together in Manila for a vacation earlier this year and stayed in the city.<br />
Masters was believed to have been killed inside the condominium unit she was sharing with her boyfriend in Mandaluyong City.<br />
The two men were arrested at a condominium unit in Ermita, Manila shortly after the body was found.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mir-Islam-and-Troy-Woody-are-shown-placing-the-brown-box-into-the-cab-they-took-to-the-Pasig-River-3.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Mir Islam and Troy Woody are shown placing the brown box into the cab they took to the Pasig River 3" width="844" height="463"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Islam and Woody are shown placing the brown box into the cab they took to the Pasig River, where Mas</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></strong><strong>ters&#8217; body was found, after their driver called authorities and reported their suspicious behavior</strong> <img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tomi-Michelle-Masters-2.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Tomi Michelle Masters 2" width="738" height="874"><strong>An autopsy showed that Masters [photo], was strangled and may have died before she was thrown in the river</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Masters&#8217; father, Shawn Masters, said that he will bring his daughter&#8217;s body back to Indiana where they will arrange her funeral.<br />
Islam has a long criminal history of swatting, which is the false reporting of a serious incident such as a bomb threat, murder, or hostage situation, to bring a large number of emergency responders to a designated area, according to ;<a class="class" href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/12/serial-swatter-and-stalker-mir-islam-arrested-for-allegedly-dumping-body-in-river/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KrebsonSecurity</a>.<br />
He was sentenced in 2016 to one year in jail for reporting phony bomb threats and fake hostage situations at the homes of celebrities and public officials, as well as stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet.<br />
Islam filed a handwritten lawsuit from jail earlier in 2018 that named Woody, referring to him as &#8216;TJ,&#8217; and accused him of &#8216;typosquatting,&#8217; which is a form of cybersquatting where a person will hijack a brand by capitalizing on common typos made by internet users to obtain URLs that are similar to URLs owned by others.</p>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong> ;<img class="" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Troy-Woody-Jr.-left-Mir-Islam-and-Tomi-Michelle-Mastersright-1.jpg?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Troy Woody Jr. [left], Mir Islam and Tomi Michelle Masters[right] 1" width="735" height="617">&#8216;Tired of the scene&#8217;: The trio, Woody (left), Islam (center) and Masters (right), are pictured together in Manila. Masters is said to have been &#8216;tiring of the scene&#8217; ;</strong></div>
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<div>In 2012, Islam was part of an FBI sting called Operation Card Shop, where the intelligence agency busted a group of nearly two dozen people for allegedly trafficking in stolen credit card information.<br />
The operation was run by a group which Islam is believed to have founded called carders[dot]org, which collectively possessed information for more than 50,000 credit cards.<br />
Islam is believed to be the co-founder of UGNazi (Undergound Nazi Hacktivist Group), a hacking group thought to have hacked many high-profile websites, including those of the CIA, the Department of Justice, Twitter and UFC.com. Woody is also said to have been a member of the group, which according to ;<a class="class" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGNazi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia</a>, became WhiteHat in 2018.<br />
WhiteHat Security is a group that gets paid to test the security of websites.<br />
Both suspects told police they were from Luxr LLC, a Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency trading firm registered in Lewes, Delaware.<br />
Woody, who has gone by &#8216;MrOsama&#8217; and &#8216;Everlife,&#8217; describes himself online as an &#8216;Early Crypto Investor.&#8217; He has 17,000 followers on Twitter and 250,000 followers on Instagram.<br />
Islam, who refers to himself online as &#8216;Josh the God,&#8217; has 18,000 followers on Instagram.</div>
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Video proves Bitcoin trader, ‘strangled his girlfriend to death’ in the Philippines – Troy Woody Jr, then stuffed Tomi Masters’ body in cardboard box, loaded it into a cab and ‘dumped her in a river’, with the help of his pal
