The meticulous handyman shown below is on trial in Brooklyn for killing his still-missing employer and thinks he’s committed “the perfect crime.” There’s just one little hitch, though…
He bragged about it to his daughter.
Yesterday, in court, prosecutors played her 2011 recordings of accused murderer Luis Perez boasting about how he disposed of his victim’s remains and thoroughly scrubbed down the crime scene with industrial-strength bleach and carpet cleaner.
“I used garbage bags to put the body in. I put everything in garbage bags,” Perez tells his daughter Irene in one particularly damning Q&A session. “I cleaned the area, I bleached everything.”
Stunned jurors listened to almost four hours of the “bombshell” confession that Irene Perez secretly taped for detectives after being “coerced” by them to do so on threats her “children could be taken away” if she didn’t.
Her 50-year-old father is the only suspect in the unsolved disappearance of Bruce Blackwood nearly a decade ago. Investigators have long believed the wealthy NYC landowner was murdered and dismembered by his felonious employee during the spring of 2006.
In fact, Blackwood vanished without a trace on the same day he allegedly confronted repeat-offender Perez about a number of checks he had forged totaling $7700.
“It wasn’t something I planned,” the accused murderer tells his daughter in one of the recordings she made almost five years ago. “He told me the police were going to come and arrest me.”
“You used a machete, too?” Irene leadingly asks, after her father describes in graphic detail killing Blackwood, making mincemeat of the man’s corpse, and sterilizing everything after the fact.
Yes, Luis Perez remorselessly replies. “I had to.”
