NEW YORK — When Nisaa Walcott’s teenage son returned from school to their East Harlem apartment last week, his mom wasn’t home — but his mom’s cousin was there to greet him, cleaning the floor with bleach.
The teen had gotten a mysterious text from his mom that day explaining the 21-year-old cousin would be there to take care of him while she was unexpectedly away on business.
What the boy didn’t learn until days later was that his mother, a beautician at a Harlem barbershop, had been strangled. Her body was rotting in a plastic container on the rooftop of their apartment building, part of NYCHA’s Lexington Houses on E. 99th St. near Park Ave.
