Imette St. Guillen
A bright, beautiful Boston Latin School graduate was found apparently strangled and dumped in a New York City lot – her naked body covered by a blanket, her head entirely wrapped in duct tape, police sources told the New York Post.
Imette St. Guillen, 24, was last seen alive at a trendy Lower East Side night spot, the Pioneer Bar on the Bowery, early Saturday morning. Her body was found Saturday night after she was reported missing.
St. Guillen, a graduate student in forensic studies at John Jay University, was a 1999 graduate of the prestigious Boston Latin School, according to a friend’s Web site. She grew up on Francis Street in the Longwood medical area in a red triple-decker where she lived with her sister and her mother, a neighbor said.
Imette and I went to the same highschool and I was a year behind her. We were on swim team together for 2 years and we swam in the same “slow swimmer” lane during practices. We weren’t very close, but we chatted a few times, and I remember her as a very sweet, friendly girl. There are some newer reports coming out about her possibly being sexually assaulted by a group, and the details keep getting more gruesome and frightening.
I hope this tradgedy will serve as a reminder to people to always stay with friends when out and drinking.
I hope they catch the bastard or bastards who did this.
This has been so upsetting. It makes you realize that these things do happen to anyone. Usually when there is a murder story on the news (like the recent Entwhistle story) you see the pictures of the person flashed on the news and it just kind of rolls off your back..but every time they flash her picture I get a jolt when I think of how I used to see her almost every day in the halls. They showed a picture of her at her high school graduation on the news and I knew every single person in the picture. Ann said that in one news clip they flashed a group swim team picture and she is pretty sure that you, her, kara, and katie are all in it!!
It is just really horrifying. Especially since she was last seen at a place that is less than a mile from Kara…a bar Kara has actually been to I think.
God. Makes you think.
=\ Sorry, sweetie. I saw this on TV the other night (local news), it’s horribly sad.