The man accused of fatally strangling a 38-year-old mother in a New York City hotel room shared gruesome details about the brutal murder to investigators, and said the attacks on the victim and other women were caused by his failure to find love, the Arizona Republic reports.
Raad Amansoori, 26, appeared in court Monday after he was arrested earlier this month in the city of Surprise, Arizona, a Phoenix suburb.
In addition to the New York case, which Amansoori called his “first murder,” authorities allege that he has attacked multiple women in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, according to FOX5.
During a court hearing on Monday, Surprise Police Det. Jeremy Goebel testified about what Amansoori allegedly told him regarding why he accosted the women.
“He stated that he’s been seeking to find love his whole life and hasn’t been able to find it,” Goebel told the court, according to the newspaper.
“He had said numerous times throughout my occasion in my interview with him that nobody loves him. His mother doesn’t love him. His family doesn’t love him. That every attempt he’s made with the opposite sex has not been successful.”
Goebel further described how he strangled Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, a Queens sex worker, during an argument about their arrangement at SoHo 54 Hotel in Manhattan. Her body was found on February 8.
“In his words, ‘She just wouldn’t die’,” Goebel told the court, according to the Daily Mail. Amansoori said he tried to snap the victim’s neck and then struck her with an iron before suffocating her with a blanket and sock.
Goebel also testified that Amansoori allegedly said he was “addicted to sex,” according to the Arizona Republic.
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has thus far declined to extradite Amansoori to New York City to face prosecution.
“Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg, I think it’s safer to keep him here and keep him in custody so that he cannot be out doing this to individuals either in our state, county or anywhere else,” Mitchell has said, according to the Arizona Republic.
A spokesperson for Bragg has countered that Mitchell is “playing political games in a murder investigation” and said her refusal to send Amansoori back to New York City “is a slap in the face” to the victim and New York law enforcement, the Daily Mail reported.
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[Feature Photo: Denisse Oleas-Arancibia/Facebook; Raad Amansoori/Surprise PD]
