With Roni Jacobson The body of Brandy Odem was found in Brooklyn’s Canarsie Park. When the cutting was done, she drove Martin to Canarsie Park twice in two nights, and helped him ditch her remains, she said. “I never chopped up a body before, but this is, like, a meaty area and it’s giving me some trouble.” “This s–t is hard,'” Martin said, according to Anderson. The sound woke her up as she slept one morning, and when she stormed into the bathroom, she saw Odom with her arms cut off, stored in a garbage bag on the floor. It took two days for Martin to cut up her body, and he had to go to Home Depot to get a motorized saw. Martin made Anderson tape heavy-duty garbage bags to every surface in their bathroom, she said. “He said this is the first time he’s ever felt somebody’s life leave their body,” Anderson recounted, adding, “He told me that he choked her until she wasn’t breathing no more.” Nicole Odom, mother of Brandy Odem, is pictured during a candlelight vigil for her daughter on April 12, 2018, in Canarsie Park, where the body was found. The window was open to help mask the time of death. He showed her Odom’s naked corpse in the bedroom, she said. “My heart dropped and I said, ‘Oh, s–t he really did it,” she recounted.Īnderson reunited with Martin, and after a takeout dinner from Red Lobster, he went to work disposing of the body. He sent her a coded text message about a pair of black UGGs shoes to let her know it was done, she said. Brandy Odom, 26, is shown in this Facebook image.įinally, in April 2018, after Martin sent Anderson and their newborn daughter to stay with her mother, he killed Odom, Anderson testified. He made her take out life insurance policies against her sons and the youngest child’s dad, but eventually he settled on Odom, and had Anderson pretend to be her sister to take out two policies in her name, she said.Īt first, Martin tried to get a friend, Samson Alabi, to shoot Odom in a staged robbery, but Alabi testified last week that he wouldn’t do it. Martin talked about killing Anderson’s son and the boy’s father, and about murdering one of his friends, she said. “There was holes all in the walls throughout the house,” she said. He also beat and repeatedly raped Anderson, she told the jury. He became their pimp and controlled their lives - forcing them to remain naked whenever they were in the house and prohibiting them from showering to satisfy a fetish, Anderson said. In 2016, they started using Martin’s Queens home for their trade, and started living with him. in Brooklyn.Īnderson was living downstairs, and the two became friends and moved in with each other. (Jeff Bachner/New York Daily News)Īnderson started getting into sex work around 2014, she said, and she met Odom - who was also doing sex work - when the victim moved into her sister’s apartment on Fulton St. Members of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit search for evidence linked to the murder of Brandy Odom at the Rosedale home of Cory Martin on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. But he abused her throughout their relationship, she claimed.īefore moving in with Martin in his Rosedale, Queens home, she had two sons with other men and that constantly enraged him, Anderson said. “He was my high school sweetheart,” she said. She and Martin started dating on-and-off since their teens, when they were students at Canarsie High School. Martin’s defense attorneys lay the entire plot on Anderson, stating that she was behind the life insurance scheme and is spinning a tale to stay out of prison, while also grilling her about the alleged lies she told police and her history of shoplifting and fraud.Īnderson described Odom’s murder, and her toxic relationship with Martin, on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The location where Brandy Odom was found murdered is pictured on Apin Canarsie Park in Brooklyn. Martin meant for someone to find the body, prosecutors said, because he wouldn’t be able to collect the insurance payout otherwise. He made Anderson watch “The First 48” to learn about police tactics, like how investigators use blue ultraviolet light to find forensic evidence.
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