Updated 04/21/2009 06:19 AM
Liverpool man charged in wife's murder
Courtesy of myspace.com
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. -- Go to Alex Martinez's MySpace page and you see half of the story. Go to the pictures to see his relationship with 21-year-old Angela Harris develop. First dating at teenagers, then marriage just months ago, a few weeks after the birth of a young son. A young family. Again, half the story.
The rest is sealed behind police tape inside the apartment where that family lived. Something went very wrong inside that apartment Saturday morning. There was a fight and Martinez allegedly killed Harris.
The suspect apparently had a plan to try to hide the killing. First, a stop at Wegmans to buy garbage bags to wrap the body. Then a stop at Home Depot, buying bags of cement that would be used to weigh the body down. He had a plan, but it involved taking the body back to his hometown of Fishkill.
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Remember that MySpace page? Among its many pictures, shots of a favorite spot for Martinez, a reservoir back in Fishkill. Driving through the night, Martinez arrived at that spot early Sunday morning. The same reservoir where State Police believe he planned to dump the body of his wife. But things didn't go as planned.
“The steps he had taken were not sufficient. At that point, I believe, he realized that Angela would certainly be discovered and the logical chain of events would be to go back to Angela's husband, certainly,” said New York State Police Captain mark Lincoln.
It was then that Martinez went to a police department in Fishkill and confessed to the killing. The job now for authorities is to tie up loose ends.
“There is a tremendous amount of physical evidence at Grampion Road, including a timeline that the State Police are putting together and this has to do with his computer, his phone records and people that he talked to,” said Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick.
There is one more picture in the story of Alex Martinez and Angela Harris. The picture taken just last Friday of a young mother and her 6-month-old son. Their last day as a family.
The 6-month-old son of Alex Martinez and Angela Harris, Draven Martinez, was at home during the killing on Saturday. His father took him along on the long drive to Fishkill. The child was not harmed and is now in the custody of the victim's parents.