Blanket-Wrapped Body Found in Bronx House: Police

Police charged a Harlem man with murder Saturday hours after questioning him about a woman's decomposing body found wrapped in a blanket inside a Bronx apartment, authorities said.

Roger Roberts, 53, was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, police said. He was believed to be the victim's boyfriend, police said.

Police found the body of 46-year-old Milagros Rolon inside an apartment at 1209 Tinton Avenue in an area commonly known as Morrisania, investigators said. Rolon, whose hands were bound, appears to have been dead for about a week, police said.

Rolon, of 465 E. 167th Street in the Bronx, frequently visited a man who lives in the Tinton Avenue apartment.

No other details were available.

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