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Machete, Blood at Home of Missing NYC Woman's Date

Sex-crime suspect told pal not to talk to cops about missing woman
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 7, 2008 7:36 AM CST
Machete, Blood at Home of Missing NYC Woman's Date
Photos, released by the New York City Police Department, show Laura Garza, who has been missing since last Wednesday. Police have questioned a registered sex offender in her suspicious disappearance.   (AP Photo/NYPD)

Police have found blood, a machete, and a woman's shoe at the family home of a sex-crime convict suspected in the disappearance of a woman who left a Manhattan nightclub with him, reports the New York Daily News. Suspect Michael Mele, the son of a retired New York City transit deputy police chief, had bite and scratch marks on his body, and cleaned his upstate home with bleach after 25-year-old Laura Garza disappeared last week, according to cops.

Blood was also found in an car parked at the home, reports the New York Post. Mele was being held in a county jail on a probation violation for drinking alcohol at the popular Marquee club in Manhattan, where a security camera showed him leaving with Garza. Mele told a friend not to discuss the night with police investigators, according to the Post. Garza moved to Brooklyn from a small town in Texas just 5 months ago to pursue a fashion career.
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