Elena Kiejliches
Elena Kiejliches
Elena Kiejliches (c.) is on trial for murdering her husband so
she could run away with another man,
shown here with her attorneys
(l. to r.) John Murphy, Jr., Jason Leventhal, Jr. and Mark Fonte on
the steps of Staten Island Supreme Court, 18 Richmond Terrace,
Staten Island, New York.
(Photo by Debbie Egan-Chin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
Elena Kiejliches (c.) is on trial for murdering her husband so she
could run away with another man,
shown here with her attorneys (l.
to r.) John Murphy, Jr., Jason Leventhal, Jr. and Mark Fonte on
the
steps of Staten Island Supreme Court, 18 Richmond Terrace, Staten
Island, New York.
(Photo by Debbie Egan-Chin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
Convicted killer Elena Kiejliches cries as she speaks about her
children during a interview with an Advance
reporter at
the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester on Sept. 20,
2006.
(Staten Island Advance/Chad Rachman)
Elena Kiejliches
Elena Kiejliches, seen in this 2013 photo, is housed in Bedford
Hills Correctional Facility
and is not eligible for parole until June 2024 when she’ll be 58.
(New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision)
Crime scene.
Mansion in Staten Island's upscale Toldt Hill neighborhood.
Messiah Justice said he first dropped the body in an abandoned
building in Brooklyn
and later put it in a barrel and dumped it into Jamaica Bay.
Messiah Justice was sentenced in July 2003 in state Supreme
Court, St. George,
to one and a third to three years in prison.
Elena, Kiejliches, the wife of a prosperous Russian businessman
killed her husband in their lavish Staten
Island home, had her
boyfriend help her dump the body, then took her children on a
vacation to Disney
World before reporting her husband missing.
The police found the body of Ms. Kiejliches's husband, Borys, 49, in
a cardboard barrel in a marsh near the
Belt Parkway on the
Brooklyn-Queens border on April 25, 2000. He had been dead for some
time when he
was discovered, police officers who investigated the
scene said, and had been shot once in the head with
a large-caliber
pistol.
The body was found wrapped
in bedding and towels similar to those found by police during a
search
of Kiejliches's house.
The victim
Elena Kiejliches biography