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For Two Days, Woman Had No Clue Dead Granny Was In Closet
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 1, 2011
Modified Apr 1, 2011
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After 24 hours of questioning, investigators released the woman who was found in bed with a young Harlem man while his dead grandmother was hidden in the bedroom closet under a pile of clothes. Nakeema Craig swears she had no idea the corpse of Larry Davis's grandmother was stashed there, despite being holed up in apartment with Davis for two days. She tells the Daily News it wasn't until concerned relatives come looking for 76-year-old Cora Davis that she learned that there was a corpse in the closet. Which makes us wonder how long this could have gone on? And doesn't a dead body start to stink after 48 hours? Or have we just seen too many movies?
It could be that the apartment was so thick with the odor of marijuana smoke that it overwhelmed the stench of decay. Craig says she had passed the two days with Davis lounging in his grandmother's bed and smoking weed with him and his buddies. (Yesterday the News noted that she has a prior arrest for prostitution.) She claims she was shocked when Cora Davis's relatives showed up looking for their grandmother and discovered the corpse. And she was probably even more surprised when cops slapped the cuffs on her.
"I was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time," Craig tells the News. "It's real scary for me—I can't believe I was laid up in the house the whole time with a dead body." Police are still searching for Larry Davis, who ran from the apartment when Cora Davis's relatives walked in on him and Craig in his grandma's bed, and investigators say they "found signs of hemorrhaging around Davis' eyes that suggest she may have been strangled."
Craig would also like to know just what the heck was going on in L.D.'s mind during those two days: "If he was in the house, he gotta know what's going on. And how could he feel comfortable with his grandma there like that?" We can only assume Davis is so accustomed to burying his emotions that he was able to keep the pain of losing his grandmother all bottled up, so as not to spoil his quality time with Craig.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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