A 50-year-old New York man, Damon Foy, has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend, Alberta Dale, 44, after their relationship ended.
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Foy killed Dale between March 31 and April 1, 2024, and placed her severed head inside a suitcase with a flower. He was arrested while investigators were working to establish what happened to Dale and locate her remains.
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According to the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office, the investigation began on April 1, 2024, after Dale’s family members in Pennsylvania contacted law enforcement because they were concerned about her well-being.
Deputies initially conducted a welfare check before opening a missing person investigation. When they visited Foy’s apartment on April 1, they found Dale’s car.
The following day, deputies returned to question Foy after a member of the public found Dale’s phone on the side of the road and handed it over to authorities. The discovery raised concerns that she might have been the victim of a crime.
During the investigation, Foy reportedly made a confession to officers who arrived at his home.
“She’s in there,” Foy whispered to investigators when they arrived at his home during the missing person investigation. “I killed her,” he added, according to court documents cited by the New York Post.
Investigators obtained a search warrant and searched Foy’s home. After shining a flashlight on a suitcase inside a closet, they “immediately noticed what appeared to be dried blood,” according to the documents.
“Officers opened the defendant’s suitcase and found Alberta Dale’s partial dismembered remains, including her severed head,” the court documents read, according to the New York Post.
“The remaining portions of her dismembered body were not located during the execution of the search warrant,” the documents add.
Foy was subsequently arrested and charged in connection with Dale’s death.
During a later interview with investigators, Foy said he “loved her,” according to the court documents.
He also spoke about their relationship, saying:
“The only thing she kept doing after the time throughout the whole relationship was just play me, play me like a fool, play me like a sucker, and just took advantage of the whole f–king system,” he said.
“That’s it. I was told to leave my own home. I was told to leave my own f–king home, not a bill in her name, and I was told to leave my own f–king home. Get out. Then it all started coming clearer to me,” he added.
When investigators asked him about the flower found inside the suitcase, Foy said he was thinking about “what still happened last night to take s— over the top.”
Court documents cited by the New York Post also indicated that Foy had a history of domestic violence against Dale.
Dale had previously warned authorities that “if she went missing it was because Foy killed her,” according to the court documents.