By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — New details continue to complicate the case of a prominent young lighting designer found dead wearing a latex body suit and handcuffed in his Financial District apartment on Monday.
Alejandro Bulaevsky, 26, also had a gas mask on when his body was discovered by police around 5:30 p.m., the New York Post reported.
Several sadomasochistic contraptions, vials of what is believed to be anabolic steroids and $29,000 in neatly wrapped $100 bills were also discovered in the apartment, the paper reported.
“We are awaiting the results of toxicology and tissue testing, in order to determine the cause and manner of death,” Ellen S. Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office, told the New York Times, adding that the results might not be available for another two weeks.
There were no signs of a break in at the apartment, on the 16th floor of 90 West St., and it did not appear that Bulaevsky, last seen in building surveillance video at 8 p.m. on Sunday, had been attacked, police said on Tuesday.
“It’s kind of bizarre,” one investigator, who was not identified, noted to the Times. “There’s no forced entry, no property taken, no robbery. The door was locked, all locked from within, from the inside.”
Paul Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, pointed to an obvious theory of the case, in a statement quoted by the paper: “One aspect of the investigation would be to determine whether his death was related in any way to a fetish involving latex.”
