BROOKLYN — A Flatbush man is facing up to 25 years in prison after he was indicted on charges that he murdered and then dismembered his wife inside their Linden Boulevard home, prosecutors said.
Phillip Martin, 42, admitted to killing Diana Rodriguez-Martin, 43, inside their apartment at 58 Linden Blvd. in January and then using a saw to butcher her corpse, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.
“The allegations against this defendant are truly disturbing and we are determined to hold him responsible for this barbaric murder,” acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.
Diana’s relatives became worried after they hadn’t heard for her for about a month and reported her missing.
Phillip at first said his wife left him and gave conflicting accounts about where she went.
He was finally arrested on Feb. 16 and admitted to detectives that he had killed his wife, dismembered her body with a hand saw, stuffed her remains into garbage bags and used a laundry cart to dispose of the bags in trash cans along their street, according to the prosecutors.
A grand jury indicted him on second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter and concealment of a human corpse charges.
Phillip has three previous arrests dating back to 2008, but those charges were sealed, an NYPD spokesman said.
He was held without bail after being arraigned on the indictment in Brooklyn Supreme Court Thursday and is due back in court on May 4.
Information on his lawyer was not immediately available.
