:-: Woman is stabbed to death by the estranged husband who she had warned friends would kill her, before he leaps to his death from her sixth-floor Manhattan balcony :-:

Sara Malm For Mailonline :-: 1 hrs ago

 

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Tragedy: Yuberkis Paulino, 50, centre, was stabbed to death by her estranged husband Pablo Castro, 46, in her home, just days after posing for this happy family Christmas photo. 

A New York woman has been murdered by her estranged husband, who then leaped to his death from her sixth-floor balcony, days after appearing happy together in a Christmas family photo.

Yuberkis Paulino, 50, was stabbed to death by Pablo Castro, 46, in her home in Manhattan's Washington Heights on New Year's Day.

Police were called to the scene after Castro's body was spotted on a second-floor terrace, after which they discovered the remains of Ms Paulino in her apartment.

The couple had recently separated and Castro had moved out of the apartment, but they appear to have reunited over the Christmas period.

On Christmas Eve, the grandmother-of-one shared a happy family photo of herself, Castro, her two daughters and her granddaughter all wearing matching 'Santa's Squad' sweaters.

Ms Paulino had told friends she 'feared for her life' after fighting with her husband-of-five-years, and that if something happened to her, Castro would be to blame, New York Daily News reports.

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Murder: The couple had been married for five years but recently separated and Castro had moved out of the Washington Heights apartment.

'Pablo killed her,' Ms Paulino's former father-in-law through her first marriage told the website.

'(He was) a working man, but an extremely jealous man.'

Police was called to the scene just before 8am yesterday when Castro was found dead with multiple allegedly self-inflicted stab-wounds on a second-floor balcony.

Realising he had fallen from above, they then discovered blood on the balcony of the sixth-floor flat he had shared with Ms Paulino.

Local media reports that Castro stabbed his wife to death, then stabbed himself before jumping off the balcony.