People v. Basso

On February 19, 1984, the body of Marguerite Aguilera was discovered in a room at the Trade Winds Motel in Yonkers. She had been brutally strangled and an obscene remark was written on her stomach in lipstick. A night clerk who had been on duty when the decedent checked in informed the police that she had arrived at the motel in a taxicab at about 10:30 p.m. on February 18, accompanied by a white male. In Aguilera’s purse was an address book in which the defendant’s name was written next to the telephone number of a taxicab service. The police contacted the taxicab company and learned from…