By David Lohr
August 8, 2007
NEW YORK (Crime Library) — Authorities are investigating the death of Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, a 20-year-old woman whose badly decomposed body was found this weekend in her mother's Washington Square Village apartment.
On Sunday night a couple subletting the other bedroom of the two-bedroom apartment reported smelling a foul odor coming from Tumi's bedroom. When the building superintendent attempted to investigate the source of the odor, he found the door locked from the inside. Suspecting something was awry, he alerted the authorities to the situation.
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| Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum |
Police officers arrived at the eighth-floor apartment around 10:00 p.m. The tenants stated that they had not seen Tumi since Wednesday, when she threw what neighbors described as a "wild party." Suspecting foul play, police officers entered the bedroom through an unlocked balcony window.
When police officers stepped inside the room, which according to ABClocal.go.com was littered with condom wrappers and beer bottles, they were overwhelmed by the stench of death. The source of the odor was quickly traced to some bedding sheets in a space between the bed and the wall. Upon closer investigation, the officers caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a body hidden within the soiled linens.
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