Assailant Stuffed Items Down 93-Year-Old Victim's Throat In Heinous Torture, Killing

A woman assailant has been charged for the vicious torture and killing of a 93-year-old woman inside her Skyline Apartments flat in late February on Thursday.

Victoria Afet, 23, has been indicted in the murder case of Connie Tuori, 93, who was mercilessly tortured before being strangled to death in her own home, CNY Central reported.

According to court documents, Afet stuffed several items down Tuori’s throat while stabbing her multiple times with a knife in prolonged torture. This eventually led to her asphyxiation. The indictment did not mention what items had been stuffed down her air passages.

Touri's remains would not be discovered until almost three weeks later. Authorities alleged that the elderly victim was killed on Feb. 26.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said that security footage from the date showed Afet following Tuori into her apartment around 3'oclock in the afternoon, Syracuse.com wrote.

Two hours later, Afet was seen leaving the apartment. The young assailant reportedly purposely hid Tuori’s body in a sealed bedroom inside the flat. Afet also faces a concealment of a corpse charge.

Tuori’s body stayed undiscovered in her apartment for weeks until 19 days after the alleged date of the murder, when a friend of the victim called the police for a welfare check.

“This is one of the most brutal cases that I’ve ever seen in my career, and that’s why it warranted the murder in the first degree, which is really a torture-murder,” Melinda McGunnigle, Chief Assistant District Attorney, said.

Fitzpatrick added that he can only recall a handful of Syracuse murder cases with this extent of torture since the law went on the books in 1996.

Afet is set to face the Onondaga Country Court judge for a hearing. She faces life in prison without parole under an obscure section of the first-degree murder law related to torture. She also faces a second first-degree murder charge for murdering the older woman while committing a burglary inside the victim’s apartment.

Records show that Afet had been arrested seven times in 2020 and three times in 2021

The Skyline Apartments is an infamous perennial crime scene in Syracuse. From October 2020 to February 2021, the police had received more than 500 distress calls in the area alone. The 12^th floor, where Tuori resides, is known for numerous fights and drug-related incidents.