Based on all of the above evidence, investigators brought Da Silva in for an interview at the New Rochelle Police Department where he waived his Miranda rights and told his story, adding that once he placed her inside the vehicle, he drove for some time before placing the suitcase in the forest, where it was later found by Greenwich public works employees who unzipped it and found Reyes inside, the complaint said.
Federal authorities said Da Silva Rojas told authorities in a videotaped interview at the New Rochelle Police Department that Reyes fell to the floor and hit her head after they had sex on January 29 at her residence.
Javier da Silva's arrest follows police discovering the ex boyfriend from Queens having fraudulently used Reyes' ATM card in NY the Westchester Journal News reports.
Reyes was found dead on February 5 inside a suitcase along a Greenwich, Connecticut, road with her hands and feet bound.
Afterwards, he said he put packing tape over her mouth, bound her legs and hands and put her in a suitcase he later put in his vehicle.
The 24-year-old from New Rochelle will be laid to rest today. The night before, she made a frantic, prophetic phone call to her mother declaring: "I'm scared". Sanchez said the family isn't sure why she traveled to the city and it now appears that the card was actually used by Silva.
Valerie Reyes' mother, Norma Sanchez, grieves for her daughter during a candlelight vigil in NY.
The suspect is accused of using Valerie Reyes' ATM card.
According to CBS, da Silva has confessed to the crime.
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A service is scheduled for Tuesday night in New Rochelle.
"She was very scared, very frightened", Sanchez told the Rockland/Westchester Journal News. "I'm paranoid, mommy. I'm getting anxiety attacks'".
Reyes, a Barnes & Noble store clerk, had broken up with her boyfriend five days earlier, according to Sanchez.
Captain Berry said: "This entire investigation has been a herculean effort from the very beginning, from the initial officers on scene to all the work of all the detectives chasing down numerous leads".
"Reyes did tell her mother what turned out to be true: "'I'm afraid someone is going to murder me".
Reyes' mother said that Reyes supported da Silva while his mother was dying of cancer.
Police believe she was killed elsewhere and dumped in Greenwich, 24km from her home in New Rochelle.
The chief medical examiner's office has completed an autopsy but has not yet released the cause and manner of Reyes' death. "She didn't mention no one specific", Sanchez said. William F. Sweeney Jr. said in a statement.
