Crime & Safety

Clarkstown Police Identify Woman In Apparent Mall Suicide

Police identify Bindu Mathew, 36, of Orangeburg as the woman who fell to her death on Christmas Eve.

 

Clarkstown Police have identified the 36-year-old woman who died in an apparent Christmas Eve suicide as Bindu Mathew from Orangeburg. 

According to police, video surveillance of the incident at the Palisades Center shows Matthew sat on top of the fourth floor railing and intentionally pushed herself over.

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Police were called to the Palisades Center at about 10 p.m. on Monday, and recovered her body on the parking garage level.   

Editor's Note:  Police corrected spelling of last name to Mathew.

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