DARRYL LITTLEJOHN--THE RAPIST MURDERING PIG FOUND?

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March 7, 2006

The bouncer, Darryl LittleJohn, 41, had been previously arrested and convicted on charges of armed robbery, weapons possession and sale and possession of drugs. He had obtained early release from state prison in New York three times, despite one instance of having violated his parole.

Incriminating Cell Phone Records

Authorities say LittleJohn's calls from his cell phone place him in Brooklyn, near where St. Guillen's body was found, at about the time forensic experts believe she was killed. The calls also place him at the Falls, the bar where St. Guillen was last seen alive, at about the same time as St. Guillen, police sources said.

Police said that while several pieces of evidence, including the cell phone records, pointed to LittleJohn, police did not, as of this morning, have enough pieces in place to ask the district attorney to charge him with the crime.

Over the weekend police executed search warrants for the bar and its business offices, as part of an effort to gather evidence, especially pieces of physical evidence, such as a device used to cut translucent beige packing tape like the kind that was wrapped across the young woman's eyes, nose and mouth, and contributed to her death by asphyxiation. St. Guillen was also violently choked.

Police were also reinterviewing many of St. Guillen's friends who had been with her at the Falls. It appears St. Guillen and her companions may have argued, and that St. Guillen then stayed at the bar after they'd departed.

March 6, 2006

Police have been questioning a bouncer at the trendy bar where a graduate student was seen hours before her naked body was found, bound and with packaging tape wrapped over her face.

Two law enforcement officials described the 41-year-old man, who has an extensive criminal record, as a potential suspect. The bouncer was on duty at The Falls bar in SoHo when Imette St. Guillen disappeared Feb. 25, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no one had been charged.

Authorities have said they believe someone accosted St. Guillen after she left the bar. There are several security video cameras in the neighborhood, but police haven't found any showing her in the area at closing time.

On Sunday, police officers, some in white laboratory suits, searched the bar and the entire two-story building that houses the bar for evidence. The building is owned by the family of Geraldine Ferraro, the former Democratic congresswoman, vice presidential candidate and Queens prosecutor.

"They went into the basement, they went on the roof, they went upstairs to the second floor," Ferraro said. "We allowed them total access to anything that they wanted to see." "I think they went in as much to eliminate any evidence as to search for anything in particular," Ferraro added.