From the NY Post today: ‘Jesus’ Cracks Cold Case.

An Arizona man shocked cops in the East Village this week by walking into the local precinct and announcing that he’d strangled a woman on East 13th Street during an argument in 2004 - and that Jesus Christ wanted him to turn himself in.

Authorities said the confession has solved the previously cold-case murder of Myrna Gonzales, a 45-year-old homeless woman whose body was found folded into a large steamer trunk in a vacant lot at East 13th Street and Third Avenue.

“We wish Jesus would solve more of these,” one law enforcement source said.

Michael Mohr, 51, might have gotten away with the slaying. But he’d recently had a religious conversion, and realized Jesus wanted him to do the right thing.

Gonzales’ body was found June 6, 2004, in a vacant lot outside Mohr’s building.

“He was relieved,” said one law enforcement source. “He was a little emotional. He was just glad to get it off his chest.”

And here is an extract from one of the original stories on the murder, from June of 2004:

Police are offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer of a homeless woman whose nude body was found June 6 in a trunk left next to a vacant lot on 13th St. near Third Ave.

The victim, Myrna Gonzalez, 45, was choked to death by hand, according to detectives investigating the case. A former resident of the Bronx, Gonzalez had been frequenting the E. 14th St. area for about a month before her murder and had been seeking treatment for drug addiction in the neighborhood.

She signed herself in at the Beth Israel drug treatment center on May 27 and left the center on June 3. “Here was a woman trying to get her life together and some person killed her,” remarked the Ninth Precinct’s Det. Larry Young, who is investigating the case.

So, it should be noted that the City of New York owes two grand to Someone.

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