A Bronx mother was last seen stepping into her building to grab a mango for a friend before her super murdered her and threw away her corpse like trash, a prosecutor said Thursday.
“She goes in to get that mango and she never comes out alive again,” said prosecutor Marisol Martinez-Alonso at the end of the trial for Nasean Bonie, who is charged with killing his tenant Ramona Moore in July 2012.
Moore, 35, had been fighting with Bonie over rent outside 663 Jefferson Place in Claremont the day she vanished, neighbors testified at the trial in Bronx Supreme Court.
Later in the day, Moore had been munching on a mango outside the building. Her neighbor asked her to go inside to grab another one.
But Moore was never seen again. Utility workers stumbled on her skeletal remains nearly three years later in a wooded area upstate, authorities said.
Ramona Moore had fought with her superintendent over rent outside the Jefferson Place building the day she vanished.
Ramona Moore had fought with her superintendent over rent outside the Jefferson Place building the day she vanished. (KEN MURRAY/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Prosecutors called over 20 witnesses during the month-long jury trial, including a neighbor who said she saw Bonie lug a garbage pail into the trunk of his car the night Moore disappeared.
Cellphone records show Bonie made a call that night near where the body was eventually found, prosecutors said.
A previously undisclosed witness, who also lives on Jefferson Place, testified at trial that the accused killer confessed to the murder while the pair smoked marijuana in his basement.
Bronx prosecutors were prepared to try the case while the body was still missing — but then Moore’s fractured skull turned up in April in Orange County, near where Bonie has relatives.