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A New York pimp convicted Monday of fatally strangling and dismembering a sex worker to collect her life insurance policy got tips for the 2018 grisly murder from crime TV shows Dexter and The First 48, prosecutors said.
Cory Martin, 36, was found guilty in Brooklyn federal court of all charges, including murder-for-hire, in connection with the April 2018 slaying of 26-year-old Brandy Odom. Prosecutors say that Martin was sex trafficking Odom before ultimately murdering her and dumping her remains in Canarsie Park. Afterward, he and a co-conspirator made multiple unsuccessful attempts to collect upwards of $200,000 from life insurance policies they took out in Odom’s name.
“Martin saw the victim as a moneymaker, trafficking her for commercial sex, then after killing her with his bare hands, tossing out her slaughtered body parts like trash so he could profit from her death,” United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace said in a press release announcing the verdict.