‘She just wouldn’t die’ – murder suspect, Raad Almansoori

Raad Amansoori appeared in an Arizona courthouse on Monday, charged with the murder of Ecuadorian-born sex worker, Denisse Oleas-Arancibia in Queens, New York City on Feb 8

Almansoori, 26, fled NYC wearing the victim’s leggings, but was arrested in a stolen car in Maricopa County, Arizona, ten days later

Raad Almansoori who was on bail for another sexual attack, allegedly confessed to killing the mother-of-two during his interview, Arizona police told the Phoenix court on Monday

Police testified in court that Almansoori went into graphic detail about how he murdered 38-year-old Denisse Oleas-Arancibia

He allegedly admitted that he beat Oleas-Arancibia over the head with an iron and attempted to suffocate her with a sock and blanket – ‘Not a single woman on this planet likes me, so I was very upset,’ he told police

Details of three other sex attacks by the suspect have emerged since Oleas-Arancibia, was found beaten to death at SoHo 54 Hotel

He was appearing in court for the first time as prosecutors in New York and Arizona fight over where he will be tried 

Hotel room murder suspect Raad Almansoori, [photo], appeared in an Arizona courthouse on Monday charged with the murder of Ecuadorian-born sex worker Denisse Oleas-Arancibia in Queens, New York City on February 8. He allegedly confessed to police after his arrest

Alleged New York City hotel sex killer Raad Almansoori after his arrest thousands of miles away from the crime scene allegedly, boasted to police of the sheer effort involved in murdering a New York prostitute who ‘just wouldn’t die’, a court heard today.
26-year-old Raad Amansoori accused of killing sex worker Denisse Oleas-Arancibia in a room at the SoHo 54 Hotel in Queens, fled NYC wearing the victim’s leggings.
Appearing at a detention hearing in Arizona Tuesday for the first time since he was pulled from a stolen vehicle and arrested at gunpoint in a Phoenix car garage on February 18.
Details of another three sex attacks have emerged since Oleas-Arancibia, was found beaten to death at SoHo 54 hotel on February 8.

Bits of plastic were found embedded in the head of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, [photo], and a bloody iron was next to her when her body was discovered

Arizona police detective Jeremy Goebel said Almansoori went into ‘graphic detail’ about how he began strangling the a mother-of-two after an argument erupted over how long he could stay.
‘In his words, ‘She just wouldn’t die’,’ the court heard.
When the strangling did not work, Almansoori wrenched her head from side to side in a bid to snap her neck, before battering her with an iron, the suspect told his police interviewers.
She was already dying from her injuries by the time he tried to suffocate with a sock and blanket, according to Goebel.
‘Not a single woman on this planet likes me so I was very upset,’ he told the officer.

Arizona cops testified that Almansoori [photo], went into ‘graphic detail’ about how he began strangling Oleas-Arancibia inside the room they had booked at the SoHo 54 Hotel in Queens, NY, after an argument erupted over how long he could stay

The fate of Amansoori has become subject of jurisdiction wrangling after Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said she would not send the suspect back to [woke], New York for trial.
‘Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg, I think it’s safer to keep him here and keep him in custody so that he cannot be out doing this to individuals either in our state, county or anywhere in the United States,’ she said.
A spokeswoman for Bragg said it’s ‘deeply disturbing’ that Mitchell is ‘playing political games in a murder investigation’.
‘New York’s murder rate is less than half that of Phoenix, Arizona, because of the hard work of the NYPD and all of our law enforcement partners.
‘It is a slap in the face to them and to the victim in our case to refuse to allow us to seek justice and full accountability for a New Yorker’s death.’

Surveillance footage shows Almansoori leaving the area after the murder of Oleas-Arancibia on Feb 8, wearing her leggings along a well-lit Manhattan street

The body of the mother-of-two, 38, was found in this room at New York’s SoHo 54 hotel on February 8. Responding officers found an iron lying beside the body, as well as the killer’s blood stained pants with a receipt in the pocket

Police said Almansoori carjacked and stabbed a woman in Phoenix on February 17, before kidnapping and stabbing a McDonald’s employee in nearby Surprise, Arizona, the next day. 
Goebel told the court that Almansoori allegedly followed the 18-year-old victim into the McDonald’s bathroom, crawled under the door into her stall before pepper spraying her and stabbing her in the neck as she screamed.
She later described him as having ‘evil eyes’.
The officer said Almansoori had also spoken of a plan to kill his father and stepmother and burn down their house

‘Despite my chilling warning to the Florida state attorney that his actions were indicative of a potential serial killer, they callously released him, dropping all but one charge (car theft),’Leah Palian, [photo], 26, wrote on Facebook.  Leah Palian. She said Amansoori held her captive in her Orlando, Florida home before choking and sexually assaulting her in April 2023. He was on $2,500 bail at the time of the NYC murder

At a press conference last week, the NYPD revealed that Almansoori was on bail at the time of the murder for attacking and sexually assaulting another woman in Florida in April 2023.
Leah Palian, 26, says Almansoori, 26, held her captive in her Orlando, Florida home before choking and sexually assaulting her.
‘I hate that I have to do this. I hate that I have to kill you,’ Almansoori reportedly told Palian during the terrifying ordeal.
Almansoori was arrested but freed on $2,500 bail in September of last year.
‘Despite my chilling warning to the Florida state attorney that his actions were indicative of a potential serial killer, they callously released him, dropping all but one charge (car theft),’ Palian wrote on Facebook. 
‘The blood of an innocent mother stains their hands. Florida’s justice system has not only failed me but has turned a blind eye to the impending danger he posed to countless other women.’ 

Edwin Cevallos, 18, the victim’s son who lived with his mom, although unaware she was a sex worker, said she was ‘always working for us to give us the best life in this country’

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell [photo], has ordered her staff not to cooperate with plans to send Almansoori back to New York where he’s wanted for the alleged murder of Oleas-Arancibia

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that Almansoori has an ‘extensive’ out of state arrest history having previously been arrested in Florida, Texas and Arizona.Surveillance footage of Almansoori on the night of Oleas-Arancibia’s murder showed him wearing her leggings along a well-lit Manhattan street after allegedly leaving his own blood-soaked pants at the scene..
Kenny said that Almansoori had purchased a plane ticket from Florida to New York on January 26.
According to Kenny, he used his credit card usage three days later in the Big Apple and visited an escort in Upper Manhattan on February 6.
The body of Oleas-Arancibia was found on the morning of February 8, and four days later, Almansoori is said to have flown back to Arizona from Newark.
Almansoori was booked into the Maricopa County jail on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and theft.
He was also charged with robbery, assault, theft and criminal damage in the separate Phoenix investigation. 

In the wake of the turf war between Arizona and New York, Maricopa DA, Mitchell, said she didn’t trust Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg [photo], to handle ‘violent criminals’ given his history, as her reason for blocking the extradition request 

Kenny added the extradition could take ‘days, weeks, it could be months.’
Following the alleged crime spree, John Kelly, a criminal profiler, told Fox News that he was showing disturbing traits of being a ‘budding serial killer.’
‘It looks like he was on his way, was getting started, so it’s a good thing they got him,’ he said, noting his alleged targeting of women and ‘disassociation.’
Maricopa Commissioner Lindsey Coates ruled that Almansoori will remain behind bars without bail due to the danger he poses to the public but insisted she will not intervene in the two over extradition.
‘I am not making a determination about the bail and his eligibility, therefore, based on any information related to a separate proceeding in New York City, it’s a totally separate proceeding,’ she explained.
‘I’m only making a decision about this case today. So that’s my decision about this case.’