Ex-hooker accused of hiring hitman to kill NYC art-dealer hubby plays it cool over corpse photos

The ex-hooker who allegedly hired a hitman to kill his Chelsea art-dealer hubby coolly sat in Manhattan federal court Tuesday as prosecutors showed jurors grisly photos of the victim’s bloodied corpse.

Daniel Carrera Sikkema, wearing a gray blazer over a white shirt, showed no emotion during opening statements at the kick-off of his trial — even as prosecutors displayed images of the body of his much older estranged husband, Brent Sikkema, who was riddled with stab wounds from the January 2024 killing inside his home in Rio de Janeiro.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Sikkema, in his mid-50s, hired Cuban national Alejandro Triana Prevez to sneak into his 77-year-old spouse’s Brazilian apartment and fatally stab the prominent dealer while the couple was locked in a bitter divorce and custody fight over their young son.

“In the year 2024, Brent Sikkema was brutally murdered,” Assistant US Attorney Nicholas Pavlis told jurors. “A hitman snuck into his home in Brazil, took a knife and stabbed Brent over and over again.”

The killer “immediately made a phone call,” Pavlis said. “Who did he call? He called that man, Daniel Sikkema, that man who hired and paid him to kill Brent.”

Pavlis said the defendant “orchestrated his husband’s murder from a continent away,” believing he would receive more money as a widower than through the couple’s split.

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The Democrat Obamas and the Democrat Joe Biden administration
sure liked to promote this rebellion against God

Genesis 19:4-11
King James Version

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, AND HE WILL NEEDS BE A JUDGE: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019%3A4-11&version=KJV

2nd Peter 2:6-9
New King James Version

6 AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, condemned them to destruction, MAKING THEM AN EXAMPLE to those who afterward would live ungodly;

7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was OPPRESSED BY THE FILTHY CONDUCT OF THE WICKED

8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, TORMENTED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL from day to day BY SEEING AND HEARING THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS)—

9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment,

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%202%3A6-9&version=NKJV

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