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A Chicago man accused of killing a missing mom hauled her body around for days in a blue bin apparently taken from her apartment before dumping her remains into an alley trash container, prosecutors allege.
DNA evidence found on the recovered bin, as well as evidence of blood in the missing woman’s apartment, blood on a penny found in the man’s van and blood in a hotel room where he stayed, led authorities to charge Marvin Bailey, 34, with murder in connection with the death ofChaunti Bryla, 43, who was last seen March 15.
Bryla’s body has yet to be recovered.
Bailey’s attorney, assistant public defender Marijane Placek, said in court Wednesday that the case against her client was “absurd” and built on a series of “coincidences,” reports theChicago Sun-Times.
“The number of coincidences is an overwhelming amount,” said Judge Charles Beach II, who ordered Bailey held in Cook County jail without bail on a charge of first-degree murder.
Marvin Bailey.Chicago Police Department
Around 12:19 a.m. on March 16, Bailey rode an Uber to the apartment — and 13 hours later, after riding Uber to the Walmart where he and an unnamed witness are seen on store surveillance buying the bungee cords and ties, Bailey and the witness together carried “a large and heavy blue bin” from Bryla’s apartment, according to the document.
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Later that same day, the document alleges, Bailey and the witness returned to the Walmart and used Bryla’s ATM card to obtain $100 and two Red Bull drinks; were seen on store video at a Home Depot buying a dolly; returned to the Walmart to buy more tie-down straps; and rode in Bailey’s green van to an apartment building “comprised of mostly vacant units,” where the apartment caretaker saw them dragging the dolly “with a large, heavy object on it,” later identified as the blue bin.
Early the next morning, March 17, Bailey allegedly used Bryla’s ATM card at a Dunkin’ Donuts to make two withdrawals of $202.50 each.
At 10:10 a.m., police performed a traffic stop on the green van, from which Bailey and the unnamed witness both allegedly tried to flee; officers detained them, but they were released without any citations after Bailey and the witness said they were on their way to Home Depot “to get a chain saw,” according to the court document.
Police did not search the van.
On March 20, Bailey was seen on surveillance video pulling the dolly with the blue bin in an alley toward dumpsters behind an Advance Auto store — and then back toward the Kings Inn with the dolly and no bin.
Bryla’s aunt reported her missing that same day.
A worker at the Kings Inn who knocked on Bailey’s door before Bailey checked out reported smelling an odor “unlike the normal smells in the hotel,” and described it as “a cleaner or air freshener type fragrance” that did not match the hotel’s usual cleaning supplies.
On March 29 police recovered the bin, and a cadaver dog detected the odor of human remains on the bin, the location where it was found, and in Bailey’s hotel room.
Prosecutors said the dumpster’s contents were taken to an Indiana landfill, and the black bag has not been found.
Bailey was arrested Nov. 25, according to the court document, and “made no admissions to his involvement in the victim’s disappearance.”
source: people.com
