Grisly new details of the murder of a Chelsea floral designer were revealed yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court as his two alleged killers were arraigned.
Edwin Faulkner, 30, admitted to choking John Laubach, 57, to death during a sex act March 2 in the victim’s West 22nd Street apartment, the criminal complaint claims.
He and cohort Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera, 26, then bound and gagged him with an electrical cord cut from a lamp and duct tape, before tethering his body to a bed frame, the complaint reads.
They allegedly fled with his ATM card, a laptop and jewelry. The day of the murder, they hocked Laubach’s baubles at a Seventh Avenue pawn shop and a clerk called cops, records show.
During a prior visit to the shop on Feb. 20, the duo had showed off jewelry that they said came “from an individual they were having sex with for money” and that they were “going back to rob him of more valuables when the time was right,” the complaint says.
Martinez-Herrera’s fingerprints were on a knife found in Laubach’s apartment and he also tried to use the victim’s ATM card, prosecutors allege. Investigators also recovered phone records linking Faulkner to the victim.
The suspects, both of whom have arrest records, were nabbed in Florida.