Friday, March 8, 2013
Alberto Prece Palmer was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Brittany Clardy. Read the criminal complaint against him here.
Anoka County Attorney's Office filed a murder charge Friday in the death of Brittany Clardy, whose body was found at an impound lot in Columbia Heights last month. Click on the PDF thumbnail to read the criminal complaint in the window above. Prosecutors charged Alberto Prece Palmer, 23, with intentional second-degree murder in Clardy's death. Palmer was arrested Wednesday in Woodbury after investigators tracked cell phone and Internet records connected with Clardy, 18, who had been working as a prostitute, officials said at a Thursday press conference. Palmer was her last client. The cause of death was multiple blows to the back of her head from a hammer. Clardy’s family reported her missing on Feb. 11. Police found her body Feb. 21 …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
The teenager’s body was found in a car in a Columbia Heights impound lot last month. Alberto Prece Palmer, 23, was arrested in Woodbury on Wednesday night.
Update: 11:13 a.m., Friday, March 8 Palmer has been charged with intentional second-degree murder. See: Report: Murder Charges Filed Against Man Arrested in Woodbury Update: 4:18 p.m., Thursday, March 7 It was Brittany Clardy’s work as a prostitute that led to her murder in Brooklyn Park and discovery of her body in Columbia Heights, authorities said at a Thursday press conference. The arrest of suspect Alberto Prece Palmer at his Woodbury home followed an investigation into ads Clardy placed in Backpage.com, along with information from several cell phones found in the car in which her body was discovered. Her body was found in a vehicle towed to Columbia Heights impound lot in February. Police arrested Palmer, 23, at about 7 p.m. …
Friday, February 22, 2013
She was an 18-year-old from St. Paul, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office believes.
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday investigators are working on the case of a body found Thursday in a car at an impound lot in the 3800 block of Central Ave. NE in Columbia Heights. The vehicle had been towed Feb. 13 from an apartment complex parking lot in Brooklyn Park, the statement said. See a WCCO-TV video report about the body found in a towed car in Columbia Heights. Here is the full text of the ACSO press release: On 2-21-13, the body of what is believed to be an adult female was found in a vehicle that had been towed to an impound lot in the 3800 block of Central Ave NE in the City of Columbia Heights. The vehicle had been towed to that location from an apartment complex in the City of Brooklyn Park…
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Kris Janisch
8:05 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
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