Missing Bronx woman’s body found stuffed in bag in Westchester; she had been expected in CT

By Rocco Parascandola, Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News A missing Bronx woman turned up dead Thursday when her body was found stuffed in a bag in a shallow body of water off a Westchester parkway, police sources said. Pamela Alcantara, 26, was last seen around 2 a.m.

on Sunday in her apartment on Morris Ave. near E. 179th St.



in Morris Heights, police said. As police searched for the woman, her ex-boyfriend became a person of interest in her disappearance, according to sources. A license plate hit indicated that he had been in the area of Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, where Alcantara’s body was discovered Thursday morning inside a bag in a creek, about 100 feet off the Saw Mill River Parkway, law enforcement sources said.

Police later took the dead woman’s ex-boyfriend into custody. Charges against him were not immediately filed. On Wednesday, Alcantara’s mother spoke to News12 The Bronx , revealing that she last communicated with her daughter early Sunday morning, as the younger woman was returning home from a church event.

Alcantara had been preparing for another event at a church in Connecticut later that day, but she never made it. Her mother told the outlet Alcantara lived with her ex-boyfriend, but had plans to move out. ©2025 New York Daily News.

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