NY - Christopher Cooley, 78, found strangled, Manhattan, 16 March 2016

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A wealthy widower has been found strangled to death in his Upper East Side apartment with the door locked from the inside and days worth of deliveries at the door.
Christopher Cooley, 78, was seated on the couch in his living room with a necktie wrapped twice around his neck when the building's super came in through a back door.
Cooley had congealed blood in his hair and a pillow over his head, the New York Times reported There was a shattered lamp at his feet.
Coroners said on Friday that Cooley had been strangled to death.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...death-Upper-East-apartment.html#ixzz443PM9I7O
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Interesting case, this; look for solving soon.
 
While living in Venice as a younger man, Mr. Cooley had gotten to know Ezra Pound, the poet who was indicted on a treason charge for his wartime support of Fascist Italy, and even attended the poet’s last birthday party, days before Pound’s death, according to one book.

Reached by telephone, a sister of Mr. Cooley’s, Clare Cooley Edwards, declined to speak about his death.

Mr. Cooley’s frequent vacations were one reason his death went unnoticed for some time, a doorman, who gave his name as Alex, said in an interview. By the time he was found, newspapers dating to March 5 had piled up at his door. But Alex, speaking while on a cigarette break, said he and the other doormen had not suspected anything because “Mr. Cooley often vacationed in Europe and didn’t tell the building that he was leaving.”

The first person to worry about his absence was an out-of-state sister, who called the building after being unable to reach her brother, the police said. At the sister’s request, the building’s superintendent opened Mr. Cooley’s apartment through a back door. The tenant was found dead, the police said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/n...-upper-east-sideunsettles-residents.html?_r=0
 
From February:

Suspect identified in necktie strangulation of rich widower

http://nypost.com/2017/02/07/suspect-identified-in-necktie-strangulation-of-rich-widower/

Steven Garland, 61, was free on $20,000 bail on an Indiana securities fraud case when he allegedly strangled Christopher Cooley, 78, with his own necktie in his East 64th Street apartment off Madison Avenue.

The NYPD on Friday confirmed that the thrice-divorced Garland – who has two prior felony grand larceny convictions – was a suspect in the slaying.

Instead of charging Garland with Cooley’s murder, the Manhattan DA’s Office had him extradited back to Indiana to face sentencing in the securities case.
 
From August:

Suspect in necktie strangulation of rich widower dies in prison

http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/suspect-in-necktie-strangulation-of-rich-widower-dies-in-prison/

Steven Garland, 62, died Sunday from sepsis at Plainfield Correctional Facility in Indiana where he’d been serving a two-year sentence for securities fraud, sources said.

Garland, who suffered from cancer at the time of his death, was eyed in the savage murder of Christopher Cooley, 78, at his Upper East Side apartment in March 2016.
 

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