Pablo Vicente, a Massachusetts man, was detained and charged with murder in connection with the disappearance of his partner Nayeli Nieves. Authorities said Vicente entered a not-guilty plea during his hearing on Tuesday in Salem District Court.

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Who was Nayeli Nieves?

Nayeli Nieves was a 20-year-old woman from Salem who was murdered by her boyfriend, Pablo Vicente. She was also a mother of two children, a three-year-old and a 9-month-old.

A police report states that Vicente told officers he had strangled Nieves in her Pope Street flat after they had argued about her phone. He accused her of cheating on him.

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Vicente allegedly admitted to investigators that she had choked the 20-year-old in front of her kids. He then spent three days living with the corpse, and the kids. Vicente claimed that Nayeli’s body eventually turned “stinky,” at which point he wrapped her up and put her remains in a dumpster.

According to court records, when police reviewed surveillance footage from the apartment building, they observed Vicente leaving the apartment on Monday morning at around 4:00 a.m. He had a dolly and a human-sized object that was wrapped in garbage bags and duct tape with him.

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Vicente had a history of aggression against Nieves, according to reports. Nieves’s family says he was charged with domestic violence against Nayeli in 2019 and even had a restraining order. According to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office, one of Vicente’s relatives informed a Lynn police investigator that Vicente had murdered Nieves over the phone. The Lynn police detective then contacted the Salem Police Department.

The Department of Children and Families is now in charge of both kids. The victim’s family, though, asserts that they will be fighting to get the children back.