A terrified Queens woman said yesterday she believes a badly burned body discovered in a neighborhood Dumpster is her missing sister – and the death is linked to a phone call from a stranger who made death threats.
Christina Figueroa alerted cops after her older sister, Edna Figueroa, 33, failed to show up for her job as a medical assistant, or pick up her two children from a babysitter Wednesday evening.
The body, found Thursday in a trash bin off Northern Boulevard in Douglaston, has yet to be officially identified. But Christina Figueroa, 30, said detectives showed her hoop earrings and a gold bracelet taken from the body, which resemble the jewelry Edna wore.
Now she’s scared that Edna’s two kids, 6 and 2, could be the killer’s next target. She’s hidden them in a secret location.
An autopsy report said the person found in the trash bin had been killed by a blow to the head.
Christina said Edna received a call on her cell phone Thanksgiving Day around 2 a.m. from a mysterious man who “asked where her kids were and that he was going to kill them all.”