A Minnesota man has been arrested as a suspect within the September killing of Maleesa Mooney, a 31-year-old mannequin and actual property agent in Los Angeles who was pregnant on the time of her dying, police introduced Wednesday.
Mooney was discovered lifeless Sept. 12 in her downtown condo after her household requested a welfare test, police stated. In response to an post-mortem report, her physique was present in her fridge on the bloody crime scene. Her legs and arms had been sure, and Mooney had blunt-force trauma accidents to her head, neck, torso, arms, wrists and ankles, in keeping with the post-mortem report from the L.A. County Medical Examiner Division.
LAPD detectives recognized 41-year-old Magnus Daniel Humphrey of Hopkins, Minn., as her alleged killer. Officers didn’t share a attainable motive on Wednesday or focus on proof that reportedly linked Humphrey to Mooney’s brutal dying.
Humphrey, who had been on federal probation, was arrested at his dwelling in Minnesota on an unrelated federal warrant, in keeping with the Los Angeles Police Division. It wasn’t instantly clear what day he was arrested. He is to be transported to L.A. quickly to face fees of homicide and torture, in keeping with officers and court docket data.
Humphrey is accused in court docket data of killing Mooney on Sept. 7, 5 days earlier than she was discovered lifeless.
On Sept. 6, Mooney had spoken along with her cousin over FaceTime, her household stated, and had gone out with associates in Santa Monica. Her household by no means heard from her once more.
Jourdin Pauline, Mooney’s sister, stated Mooney’s cellphone and laptop computer had been stolen from her condo together with a designer purse. In October, she instructed The Instances that whoever killed her sister most certainly knew the cellphone’s passcode, as somebody was sending the household “obscure” texts. Pauline didn’t elaborate on the textual content messages.
Mooney, who was two months pregnant on the time of her dying, labored for Nest Seekers, a Beverly Hills actual property company, for almost two years, Pauline stated. Mooney additionally modeled half time.
Instances employees author Summer time Lin contributed to this report.