Remains found in fugitive's home
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Authorities say they found a woman's decomposing body buried in cement in this house.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A woman's decomposing body was found buried in cement at the former New Jersey home of a fugitive who has admitted to posing as a doctor.
Police were waiting for autopsy results to make an official identification, but police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said investigators used the victim's breast implants to identify her as financial analyst Maria Cruz.
The body was found Wednesday by detectives looking for Cruz, who vanished from Manhattan last year. Cruz, 35, was last seen entering her New York City apartment April 13.
Dean Faiello, of Newark, New Jersey, became a focus of the missing person investigation after police learned that Cruz may have had an appointment with him shortly before she disappeared, authorities said.
Faiello was arrested in 2002 for allegedly practicing without a license and illegally possessing medical drugs. He pleaded guilty in June 2003 but fled to Costa Rica before his scheduled sentencing in December, authorities said. He continued to work at a skin clinic in Manhattan, then fled the country in September, authorities said.
A New York City detective learned that around the time of the disappearance, Faiello had several bags of cement delivered to his home, prosecutors in New Jersey said. The cement was used to build a raised platform in a carriage house, they said.
Armed with a search warrant Wednesday, detectives found the remains inside a large suitcase that had been encased in the cement, prosecutors said.
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