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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> The alleged &#8216;Suitcase killer&#8217; Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas claims she died when she hit her head during one last sex romp</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Rojas, 24, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela is charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend Valerie Reyes in New Rochelle, NY and dumping the body in Greenwich Ct</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police say Rojas</strong></span><strong> an illegal immigrant with dual citizenship in Venezuela and Portugal </strong><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>has admitted dumping her body but denied murdering her</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Instead, he claims she fell and hit her head while the pair were having sex</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong>The suspect admitted that he DID bind and gag her before dumping her body in a suitcase on a lonely Connecticut road</strong></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Reyes went missing from her home in New Rochelle, NY, on Jan 30 before her remains were found Feb 5</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police tracked Rojas down after he was caught using her bank card at an ATM </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Reyes expressed fears someone would kill her the day before she disappeared<br />
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-307853" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Javier-Enrique-Da-Silva-Rojas-left-and-Valerie-Reyes-1-300x295.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="672" /><strong>Murder suspect and alleged victim: Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, [left], admitted stuffing ex-girlfriend [right]Valerie Reyes&#8217; body into a suitcase, transporting and dumping it a state away in Connecticut,<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The first picture has emerged of the illegal immigrant accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and stuffing her body into a suitcase as police say he admitted dumping her remains but has denied murder.<br />
Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, 24, is accused of murdering Valerie Reyes, also 24, in New Rochelle, New York, before tying her up, stuffing her into a case, then leaving it by the side of a road in Greenwich, Connecticut.<br />
Rojas was arrested at his condo on Tuesday and police say he told them that Reyes died after falling and hitting her head while the pair were having sex.<br />
An image taken from his Instagram account shows the pair side by side in a CVS pharmacy a year ago.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-307871" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Valerie-Reyes-12-Copy-1-300x206.jpg" alt="" width="1305" height="896" />Reyes [L-R], was reported missing on Jan 30 when she failed to turn up for work before her remains were discovered last week. Her ex Rojas claims she died during sex</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone wp-image-307854" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Javier-Enrique-Da-Silva-Rojas-1-300x293.jpg" alt="" width="672" height="656" /><strong>Accidental death?: Rojas [photo] told police that Valerie Reyes fell and hit her head during sex &#8211; killing her. He claims he then bound and gagged her, put her in a suitcase, and dumped her body in woodlands</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-307437" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Body-found-in-a-suitcase-in-Connecticut-1-300x191.jpg" alt="" width="1037" height="660" />The orange suitcase containing Reyes&#8217; body was discovered by highway workers in Greenwich, Ct., around 8.15am on Feb 5. The 24-year-old was last seen on Jan 29 in New Rochelle, NY<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Investigators say Rojas admits he then bound her hands and feet, put packing tape over her mouth, forced her body into a case, and abandoned it.<br />
Rojas, an illegal immigrant with joint Venezuelan-Portuguese citizenship who was staying in Queens, was arrested Tuesday after police say he tried to use Reyes&#8217; bank card to withdraw $1,000 from an ATM.<br />
Reyes was reported missing on January 30 when she failed to turn up for work, before her body was found a week later, on February 5.</p>
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<div>Reyes had reportedly dumped Rojas a week before she went missing, though her mother told police that the pair hadn&#8217;t been seeing each other for a year, according to the <a class="class" href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/12/valerie-reyes-suspect-i-dumped-her-body-but-sex-romp-killed-her/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">New York Post</a>.<br />
A source told <a class="class" href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/man-confesses-to-killing-woman-found-in-suitcase/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CBS </a>that Reyes was &#8216;killed at her residence&#8217;.<br />
The arrest followed the police investigation of multiple crime scenes, reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, and interviews multiple potential witnesses, the Greenwich Police Department said in a press release on Tuesday.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-307874" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Valerie-Reyes-15-Copy-300x202.jpg" alt="" width="765" height="515" />Dark forebodings: In a haunting message sent to her mother the day before she vanished, Reyes said she feared someone was about to kill her</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">New Rochelle Police Detectives accompanied by Greenwich Police Detectives, arrested a suspect in New York who had fraudulently used the ATM card of homicide victim Valerie Reyes.<br />
&#8216;The arrested individual is also believed to be involved in the death of Valerie.<br />
&#8216;We are confident that the pursuit of justice for Valerie will be successful and we continue to work with the family to provide closure to this tragedy,&#8217; the police statement said.</div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-307446" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Valerie-Reyes-1-1-242x300.jpg" alt="" width="728" height="902" />Missing person: Valerie Reyes is seen in photo issued by the NYPD while officers were searching for her after she was reported missing Jan 30</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In a press conference on Tuesday Greenwich Police said that de Silva confessed to playing a role in the murder when he was questioned following his arrest.<br />
He was described as being cooperative during his interview.<br />
The investigation into Reyes&#8217; death is ongoing as Capt. Berry said &#8216;there&#8217;s a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up&#8217; during the conference.<br />
De Silva was arrested in New York and the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office in Manhattan will reportedly handle the prosecution of the crime.<br />
Reyes was reported missing after she failed to show up to work on January 29 in New Rochelle, New York and her body was found on February 5 stuffed in a red suitcase.<br />
The victim predicted her killing, telling her mother on the phone that she feared she&#8217;d be killed on January 28, a day before she disappeared.</p>
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<p class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-307449" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Valerie-Reyes-4-1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="1310" height="873" /><strong>Her body dumped in a quiet and somewhat isolated area of Glenville, a wealthy suburb of Greenwich, Ct</strong></p>
<p class="imageCaption">&#8216;She was very scared, very frightened,&#8217; Sanchez told <a class="class" href="https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2019/02/07/new-rochelle-valerie-reyes-greenwich-suitcase/2799786002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Journal News</a>.<br />
&#8216;She didn&#8217;t mention anything or no one specific. She just said, &#8216;I&#8217;m scared. I&#8217;m paranoid, mommy. I&#8217;m getting anxiety attacks, She was having a hard time talking.&#8217;<br />
Sanchez says she desperately tried to pry for more information, but her daughter refused to specify why she felt that way.<br />
Reyes, a Barnes &; Noble store clerk, had broken up with her boyfriend five days earlier, according to Sanchez.<br />
&#8216;I asked her why do you feel this way? Was there someone at your house?&#8217; Reyes&#8217; mother said.<br />
She asked about her daughter&#8217;s ex-boyfriend but still Reyes told her mother &#8216;no, it wasn&#8217;t him&#8217;.<br />
Reyes did however reveal that she didn&#8217;t feel safe alone in her apartment, and expressed her concern at the murders of young women in the state.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-307882" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Vigil-for-Valerie-Reyes-2-300x202.jpg" alt="" width="1311" height="883" />A vigil was held by family and friends on Thursday to mourn the loss Reyes, whom many have described as a &#8216;sweetheart&#8217;</strong></h6>
<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-307881" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Norma-Sanchez-1-300x207.jpg" alt="" width="1309" height="903" />Reyes expressed dark fears of her imminent death to her mother Norma Sanchez [photo], a day before she went missing<br />
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<div>&#8216;I&#8217;m worried someone is going to murder me,&#8217; Reyes then allegedly blurted out.<br />
Her body was discovered six days later in a red suitcase on the side of a road in a wooded area of wealthy neighborhood Greenwich, Connecticut. It&#8217;s 10 miles away from the New York border of her Westchester County home.<br />
The official cause of Reyes&#8217; death has not been confirmed as the autopsy is pending.<br />
Police said tips have been pouring in with leads in her horrific and sudden slaying.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Police said previously that Reyes did not die at the location where she was found, but they did not know where she was killed.<br />
According to The Journal, Reyes had taken her iPad, iPhone, clothes and bed sheets with her when she disappeared.<br />
Last week Thursday a candlelit vigil was held in Reyes&#8217; memory. Her funeral was on Tuesday.</p>
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Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, the illegal immigrant charged with murdering and dumping his ex-girlfriend in a suitcase, claims Valerie Reyes died when she hit her head during one last sex romp
