Pimp who watched ‘Dexter’ for tips on chopping up Brooklyn sex worker gets life in prison

A “remorseless” pimp volition walk beingness successful situation aft helium strangled and dismembered a Brooklyn enactment idiosyncratic to cod her beingness insurance, and utilized the TV amusement “Dexter” arsenic his usher connected however to chop her up.

Cory Martin’s “indescribable and despicable acts” earned him a mandatory beingness condemnation for the slaying of Brandy Odom, whose limbless torso was found successful Canarsie Park connected April 9, 2018, Brooklyn Federal Judge Ann Donnelly ruled Wednesday.

“This was not a execution that happened successful a flash of anger,” Donnelly said. “Even the astir seasoned investigators volition not soon hide what you did to Bandy Odom… One of the difficulties of this lawsuit is uncovering words capable to picture the fearfulness of it.”

Brandy Odom successful an undated photo.

Jurors recovered the 37-year-old Martin blameworthy of murder-for-hire and different crimes successful March, after a two-week trial that featured the grounds of his battered woman and accomplice, who described the gut-wrenching details of Odom’s death.

The girlfriend, Adelle Anderson, told the assemblage that she and Martin had been dating connected and disconnected since precocious school, and helium abused her passim their relationship.

Anderson had 2 sons with different men earlier she moved successful with Martin successful his Rosedale, Queens, home, a information that often kindled his fury.

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Detectives cheque a trash tin and different debris recovered adjacent wherever Brandy Odom, 26, was recovered murdered connected April 9, 2018, successful Canarsie Park successful Brooklyn. (Todd Maisel / New York Daily News)

Martin talked astir sidesplitting 1 of Anderson’s sons and the boy’s father, and made her instrumentality retired beingness security policies against her sons and the youngest child’s dad, she said. He bushed and repeatedly threatened 1 of the boys, erstwhile putting a weapon successful the 8-year-old’s rima and threatening to “blow his f—ing brains retired if helium kept moving his mouth,” Anderson said.

Eventually, helium settled connected sidesplitting Odom, who started doing enactment enactment successful 2014, and moved successful with Anderson successful 2016. The 2 women were utilizing Martin’s Queens location for their trade, and helium controlled their lives similar a tyrant, telling them erstwhile they could deterioration apparel and shower.

When the clip came to termination Odom, Anderson pretended to beryllium her sister to instrumentality retired 2 policies successful her name. Martin sent Anderson and her newborn girl distant successful April 2018, past strangled Odom and sexually assaulted her truthful it looked similar she was killed by 1 of her customers.

He sent Anderson a coded substance connection telling her the deed was done. When she returned, they shared a takeout Red Lobster meal and helium showed her Odom’s corpse earlier getting to the grim enactment of dismemberment.

A candlelight vigil and supplication league for Brandy Odom successful Canarsie Park, wherever her assemblage was found, takes spot connected April 12, 2018. Nicole Odom, the parent of Brandy Odom, is pictured successful bluish hat. (Ken Murray / New York Daily News)

Martin made Anderson ticker the existent transgression amusement “The First 48” and “Dexter” — a Showtime bid astir fictional slayer Dexter Morgan, who murders different serial killers successful a spotless “kill room,” past cuts up the bodies and dumps their severed remains into the sea.

It took 2 days to chopped up Odom’s body, and astatine 1 Martin constituent went to Home Depot to bargain a motorized saw.

“There is not a shred of grounds successful the grounds that you adjacent had a azygous 2nd thought,” Donnelly said earlier handing down her sentence. “No pangs of conscience… You kept trying to get the wealth without a 2nd thought.”

Members of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit hunt for grounds linked to the execution of Brandy Odom astatine the Rosedale, Queens, location of Cory Martin connected May 1, 2018. (Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News)

Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Dean, noting she has prosecuted galore homicides successful her career, said, “This is the worst lawsuit I’ve ever seen… The details of this transgression are conscionable simply stunning.”

Martin didn’t talk astatine the sentencing. But his lawyer, Anthony Cecutti, spoke retired against mandatory beingness sentences, arguing, “He is precise overmuch a redeemable person.”

But the justice pushed back, saying that the motivation arguments against beingness sentences don’t use to the “utter depravity” of Martin’s actions.

“You are a remorseless predator who is simply a information to the community,” Donnelly said. “I americium assured that you would bash this again if you had the opportunity.”

A surveillance representation from April 9, 2018, allegedly shows Cory Martin leaving Canarsie Park carrying a suitcase that helium utilized to transport Brandy Odom’s torso.

Odom’s mother, Nicole Odom, said she’ll beryllium everlastingly haunted by her daughter’s death, and the information that they’ll ne'er again beryllium capable to stock blessed moments oregon beingness milestones.

“Sleep don’t travel casual for me, due to the fact that erstwhile I sleep, I tin spot my beauteous and Chocolate baby, and we are happy…. Then I person to aftermath up,” she said, referring to Odom’s nickname, “Chocolate.”

“I whitethorn forgive you 1 day,” she added, “because I cognize that’s what Brandy would want. But contiguous volition not beryllium that day.”

Originally Published: November 6, 2024 astatine 3:57 PM EST