Vindalee Smith (credit: CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) ?Sources tell CBS 2 that a note was found next to the body of a pregnant Brooklyn mother of four who was found stabbed to death in her apartment Saturday.
The city medical examiner?s office has ruled the death of 38-year-old Vindalee Smith?a homicide. Autopsy results were?released Sunday.
Sources said the type-written note referenced Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo.
?It said ?I will kill one pregnant woman a month starting now until Lee Boyd Malvo is set free,?? NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told WCBS 880?s Alex Silverman. ?We haven?t determined whether this note is just a ruse to try to throw detectives off.?
WCBS 880?s Alex Silverman reports
?It?s scary. Scary. It makes me want to get out of here,? one area resident said.
Malvo was sentenced to life in prison for six murders in Maryland that were part of a three-week shooting spree in the Washington area back in 2002. Malvo apologized for his role in the killings, telling a court ?I?m truly sorry, grieved and ashamed for what I?ve done.? Malvo?s partner John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.
Smith was?found stabbed to death in her East Flatbush home one day before her wedding and just hours before a planned baby shower. She was eight months pregnant. Her unborn child did not survive. Neighbors told CBS 2?s Sean Hennessey they?ve never heard of anything like this.
?Horrible. Horrible. And she?s pregnant. Horrible,? Gloria Brown said.
?Anybody gonna kill someone with a baby, that?s wrong,? Irving Liburd added.
?It?s frightening and ridiculous. It?s frightening,? another neighbor said.
No weapon was recovered and there was no sign of forced entry, police said. Investigators have been questioning friends and family.
But police sources aren?t putting much stock in the note found here, saying it?s just a ruse to throw investigators off the track of who killed the mother of four.
Investigators questioned Smith?s boyfriend, who was reportedly identified as Anthony Jackman, and consider him person of interest in the case. His parents live in an apartment just a few blocks from the murder scene, CBS 2?s Hennessey reported.
?I didn?t know that side of him. I?ve never seen that side of him,? said one woman who knows the fiance but didn?t want to be identified. ?I don?t believe it. I can?t believe it. Things change and things happen, but I can?t believe the person that I know could have done this.?
The fiance was arrested Sunday night for forging a car registration. He?s free now but investigators said they are keeping tabs on where he is. There were no signs of forced entry, but investigators said they believe Smith may have known her killer.
Smith was a member of the New Dimension Church in Brooklyn and a devout Seventh-day Adventist.
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