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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Authorities arrested two squatters who allegedly killed a woman and stuffed her body in a duffel bag after she walked in on them in her dead mother’s Manhattan apartment last week, according to law enforcement sources.

The man and woman were arrested by a Fugitive Task Force in Pennsylvania Friday morning, sources said.

Police found Nadia Vitels, 52, in the closet with her foot hanging out of the bag in an apartment on the 19th floor of 206 East 31st St. in Kips Bay at around 4:30 p.m. on March 14, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. The woman had several facial fractures, a brain bleed, and two broken ribs. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Vitels may have been dead for a few days before the family urged the building superintendent to check on her, police said. Her son made the initial gruesome discovery after sweeping the space.

“The (victim’s) son opens up the closet door near the front door and discovers a duffel bag,” Kenny said on Thursday.

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