Long Islander Haley Anderson, the Binghamton University nursing student found dead in a sometimes-paramour’s bed, was strangled to death, authorities said Saturday, as they announced charges against her alleged killer.
“Though we cannot bring Haley Anderson back, we will fight for justice,” Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell said as he detailed second- degree murder charges against Orlando Tercero, 22.
Tercero fled to his native Nicaragua sometime before Anderson’s body was discovered March 9 at his student-housing apartment.
He remained in custody in Nicaragua, and Cornwell vowed to bring him back to justice in the US.
“We are going to do everything we can to make sure that he returns,” Cornwell told reporters of the suspect, who holds dual US-Nicaraguan citizenship.
Anderson, 22, and Tercero dated occasionally, and friends have said he was jealous because she was seeing someone else.
The State Department is working with the government of Nicaragua, which has an extradition agreement with the US, the DA said.
“It could be as soon as a plane ride to Texas or Florida, or as long as it takes, but he will be back in the United States at some point,” Cornwell said.
Hundreds of mourners attended a wake Saturday for Anderson in her hometown of Westbury.
Tercero may have given Anderson advance warning of his violent intentions — last September, she accused the jilted beau of methodically sticking a blade into each of her car’s tires, according to a police report obtained by WBNG.