Trans woman on trial for murder trial, shockingly confessed to another gruesome murder – with a chainsaw – as she pled guilty to slaying NYC antiques dealer in his home, in the current case

Alex Ray Scott, 28, is charged with murder, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property charges in relation to the death of Kenneth Savinski, 64

Savinski was found dead in his Upper East Side, NYC apartment on January 27, 2020, with a gash in his head and neck wounds

He not only admitted to the murder of the New York antiques dealer with a knife and a decorative plate, but the 2019 death and dismemberment of Robin Skocdopole, 63, in Oklahoma

Today the court heard that Scott, a property manager from Oklahoma who began transitioning in prison had previously decapitated his former friend and landlord in his home state

Scott, fled Oklahoma in 2019 to escape allegations she molested a five-year-old, but not before dismembering Skocdopole with a chainsaw

Scott is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court

He will be sent repatriated release to Oklahoma, to serve another 45-year prison sentence for the murder of Skocdopole

Alex Ray Scott is facing murder, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property charges related to the January death of 64-year-old Kenneth Savinski, who he is said to have met on a dating app

A property manager from Tulsa, Oklahoma, accused of murder, only to begin transitioning in a New York prison while awaiting trial, dropped a bombshell in the Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday when he confessed that had previously decapitated a friend in his home state.
The admission came today, as it emerged that she has admitted culpability in the ongoing case, the murder of an antiques dealer that happened three years ago at the the victim’s home in New York City.
Alex Ray Scott, 28, is charged with murder, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, related to the death of 64-year-old Kenneth Savinski, who he allegedly met on a dating app.
Subsequently Savinski was found dead in his Upper East Side apartment on January 27, 2020, with a deep gash in his head and neck wounds.

Alex Ray Scott [current photo], began transitioning in prison while awaiting trial for the murder of antiques dealer Kenneth Savinski, 64, in January 2020. A heavily made-up Scott on Monday admitted to killing Savinski at Manhattan Supreme Court

Prior to the latest murder case Scott, 28, who still identified as male in 2019 had fled Oklahoma to escape allegations he molested a five-year-old, but not before dismembering his landlord Robin Skocdopole, 63, with a chainsaw.
The revelations emerged as the now transitioned suspect appeared heavily made-up at Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday to admit killing Kenneth Savinski with a decorative plate, kitchen knife and ‘maybe a pen’ in January 2020.
Robin Skocdopole’s when found was dismembered, decapitated, and some of the body parts have never been found. ‘Scott agreed to take the FBI to the last known location of Skocdopole’s head,’ the Department of Justice said in a release.
‘Unfortunately, when Scott took FBI to the location, no additional remains were found.’

Scott from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is seen in a 2018 booking photo after his arrest on charges of molesting a five-year-old  – this crime was partly responsible for his fleeing Oklahoma

Scott came to the authority’s attention in January 2020 when he walked into a Manhattan police station covered in blood, and told officers: ‘I think I may have killed someone last night.’
By then police had already found the body of the elegant antiques dealer in his Upper East Side apartment on 83rd Street near Park Avenue.
Savinsky who met Scott on a dating site, was found with his throat cut and deep gashes to his head in the blood-spattered apartment.
Scott had been seen walking out of the apartment building, wearing Savinski’s black jacket and counting money with injuries visible on his hand.

Alex Ray Scott admitted to the murder of Kenneth Savinski, seen [left], with a friend at an event at Bergdorf Goodman’s Restaurant ‘BG’ in 2006. Savinski was a New York City antiques dealer and decorator

Scott allegedly, then used Savinski’s credit cards to pay for a hotel room in New Jersey, where he woke up the next day, covered in blood. He claims he has little or no memory of events that transpired the previous night.
Savinski’s was one of five credit cards found on Scott, and investigators began tracing the owners of the others, one of whom was Robin Skocdopole, the victim of a heinous murder in Oklahoma, a year earlier.
Interviewed the suspect admitted to having lived at Skocpodole’s single-story home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
When investigators could raise any one by phone at the address, officers of the Broken Arrow Police Department was dispatched to the address with a search warrant in February 2020. The officers met an empty house, stripped of all possessions, splattered with blood.
Three months later some of Skocpodole’s dismembered remains were found in a nearby creek with a medical examiner concluding that both a chainsaw and a manual saw had been used to cut them up.

NYPD forensics team remove the body of Kenneth Savinski. The 64-year-old was found dead in the living room of his first floor apartment on E. 83rd St., NYC, on January 27, 2020

Alex Scott was arrested by the NYPD in connection with Savinski’s murder on Jan 29, 2020 – two days after the victim’s body was found

However, it turned out that prior to his admitted murder of Savinski, months earlier Scott had already murdered and dismembered Robin Skocdopole, 63, at the home they shared in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

By then Scott was awaiting trial for Savinski’s murder at a Rikers Island detention center reserved for female adults and adolescents after she began transitioning while in custody, and will now be refered to with the female pronoun, she.
But it was May 2023 before Scott admitted to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in a fruitless search for the 63-year-old’s missing head. The FBI was leading the investigation into Skocpodole’s death because it took place on one of Oklahoma’s native American reservations.
They discovered that Scott, also a member of the Cherokee Nation, awaiting trial for forcing a co-worker’s five-year-old son to engage in oral sex, had been fitted with an ankle monitor in July 2019
Identifying then as a male, he was renting a room in Skocdopole’s home at the time and told friends that his landlord had moved to Dallas for work when Skocdopole vanished in August.

In May 2023, Scott admitting to Skocpodole’s murder and decapitation agreed to take part in a fruitless search for her former landlord’s missing head

Investigators later spoke to friends to reported receiving ‘vague and oddly worded’ emails from Skocpodole explaining his disappearance which Scott later admitted writing.
Data from Alex Scott’s ankle monitor data and bank history confirmed that at he time of Skocpodole’s murder, he had purchased and then returned a chainsaw at a local Walmart, while further analysis of the tag led them to where the killer had disposed of some body parts.
In October he fled to Long Island where he was arrested for fleeing the child sex charges. He told his police interviewer’s that he had gone there to kill himself.

Scott was initially arrested for the murder of Victim Kenneth Savinski, seen, [center], with two friends in 2006. Savinski moved his antique store to NYC from Maryland in 2000

Alex Ray Scott is seen [pre-transition], at a 2017 fashion show fundraiser supporting the Children’s Abuse Network

Unaware at that point of Skocdopole’s disappearance they took Scott to a psychiatric hospital for observation and later back to Tulsa to be charged with two counts of lewd molestation.
The male Scott had worked for a property management firm in Tulsa and in 2017 was pictured at a fashion show event in support of the Children’s Abuse Network of Tulsa which raised $30,000.

Scott [center], was originally booked as a male in January 2020 on charges of murder, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the death of Kenneth Savinski

But she was back in New York by Christmas 2019, staying on friends’ sofas and arranging hook-ups on dating sites, the last of which was with Savinski.
In May of this year she was sentenced to 45 years by a US District judge for the Second Degree Murder in Indian Country of Skocpodole.
Details emerged today as she admitted his guilt to the second-degree murder of Savinski.
Scott admitted to hitting Skocdopole in the head with a hammer, killing him and then using a chainsaw to dismember his body.
He then disposed of the body parts by scattering them around Broken Arrow, leaving an arm in a dumpster, the head in a wooded area, and the torso near a creek. Finally, Scott agreed to help the government find the victim’s head.

Scott [center], will serve at least 22 years in a new York state prison, per his plea deal. He will be repatriated on release to Oklahoma to serve a 45-year sentence for the Skocpodole murder

She is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court but will be returned on release to Oklahoma to serve out her sentence there.
Addressing the court, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann congratulated law enforcement on resolving a complex case that involved federal, state and local investigations.
‘I’ve been a prosecutor now for over 41 years, and I’d be hard-pressed to find an investigation and prosecution that was more thorough or of a high level than this case,’ he added.
Scott is expected back in court for formal sentencing on September 26.