‘Remorseless’ man gets life for strangling pregnant girlfriend with sweatpants, discarding lifeless body on side of highway

A 33-year-old man from New York may spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his 29-year-old pregnant girlfriend three months before she was expected to give birth, strangling her to death and then dumping her body on the side of the highway before fleeing the scene. Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder on Wednesday ordered Goey Charles to serve the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in a state correctional facility for the 2020 slaying of Vanessa Pierre, authorities announced.

A jury in Queens County earlier this month found Charles guilty on one count of second-degree murder for slaying Pierre, who was carrying his child at the time of the cold-blooded killing.

Surveillance footage showing Charles dragging Vanessa Pierre’s body out of her car and leaving it on the side of the highway (Queens County District Attorney’s Office), Charles Goey mugshot (NYPD), Vanessa Pierre (GoFundMe)

Screenshot from surveillance footage showing Charles dragging Pierre’s body out of her car and leaving it on the side of the highway (Queens County District Attorney’s Office), Charles Goey mugshot (NYPD), Vanessa Pierre (GoFundMe)

“We asked for the maximum sentence because of the brutality of the crime and the defendant’s remorseless discarding of the lifeless body of his girlfriend, the woman who was soon to be the mother of his child,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement following the sentencing hearing. “The sentence does not bring Vanessa back, but it achieves justice in her memory.”

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Charles was convicted primarily based on video surveillance footage that showed Pierre alive in her car while traveling with Charles less than an hour before he was caught on camera dragging her body out of the vehicle and abandoning her on the side of the road.

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