Brooklyn woman, 43, found dead in apartment was strangled, body undiscovered for many weeks
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A 43-year-old woman found dead in her Brooklyn apartment was strangled, and her body went undiscovered for weeks or even months, police said Thursday.
The badly decomposed body of Tamara Graham was found about 11:10 a.m. Dec. 15 in her apartment in the Albany Houses, a Housing Authority development on on Troy Ave. in Crown Heights, cops said.
Cops made the grim discovery after someone called 911 about a foul odor.
“I was smelling the smell and I kept thinking, ‘I have to call Housing but it slipped my mind,’” said neighbor Orette Williams.
It wasn’t clear at the time of the discovery that Graham was the victim of foul play — but the city Medical Examiner has ruled her death a homicide from strangulation, police said.
Williams told the Daily News Graham had previously worked as a caretaker to the person who lived in the apartment and when he died, she stayed.
“It’s really sad,” said Williams. “She didn’t bother nobody.”
Before the brutal discovery, police had no history of 911 calls in regard to the apartment.
No arrests had been made as of Thursday.
