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A chance encounter....helped cops nab a homeless drug addict now charged with killing an aide to former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani after a gay-sex romp...... Detectives were at a Manhattan employment agency looking for records on the suspect, Edwin Ramos, 26, when Ramos - who hadn't worked there in about a month - showed up.....to collect back pay. Ramos, a drifter with a long history of drug arrests, made a call using a cellphone that belonged to Martin Barreto, 49, who had worked in the City Hall press office during the Giuliani administration. Barreto's nude body was found Aug. 21 in...

A suspect was being questioned in the strangulation murder of a gay aide to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.........the man had visited Martin Barreto's Greenwich Village apartment.....the victim was found lying naked in bed next to condoms and lubricants....... Barreto suffered a crushed larynx and authorities were looking into the possibility that his death was caused by rough sex.....authorities have been poring over a surveillance video, and trying to find people he may have been dating. Barreto had used escort services in the past...... Investigators were also hoping to find DNA evidence from condoms found at the scene. Barreto worked in...

Police checked hours of surveillance video and pored over phone records yesterday as they tried to figure out who killed a gay former Giuliani aide.....Martin Barreto was found Monday, stripped naked and left lying beside condoms and lubricant on his bed in his Greenwich Village home. Cops were also checking a used condom for DNA evidence. Barreto worked in former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's press office in 1994 and 1995.....had two mysterious visitors to his home before he was found dead - and police are investigating whether the death was caused by rough sex.......they ruled out one former boyfriend, even though...

NEW YORK -- The nude body of a one-time deputy press secretary for former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was found strangled in his apartment, authorities said Wednesday. The Manhattan death of Martin Barreto, 49, was ruled a homicide after an autopsy found he died from "asphyxia due to compression of the neck," said medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove. Police discovered Barreto's body Monday night on a bed at his home on East 10th Street after a friend reported he wasn't responding to phone calls or knocks on his door. A doorman told investigators Barreto had told him he was expecting...

....a prominent gay public-relations executive days was found dead.... strangled in his own bed. Martin Barreto, 49, a former aide to then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was discovered naked with KY Jelly and a condom next to his body..........worked in Giuliani's press office 1994 through 1995....helped organize Hispanic support for the mayor's immigration policies...... Barreto, a distant relative of former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barros de Chamorro, lived with a cousin in the high-security building, but was alone Saturday night when he invited a stranger up. The man stayed briefly, and two hours later another visitor arrived, staying only 10 to 15 minutes....