On April 21, 2015, the remains of a woman found in South Blooming Grove, New York, were identified as those of Ramona Moore.

At the time Moore disappeared, Bonie was facing assault charges for an attack on his wife that left her seriously injured.

Shortly after Moore's body was discovered, Bonie was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for the attack on his wife.

Prosecutors clarified that the dispute was not about the rent but rather a scheme by Bonie to increase those payments by coercing Moore to file false documentation that would have boosted her Section 8 subsidies.

To bolster this theory, in late 2015 they subpoenaed the unedited footage from an interview Bonie gave to a local cable channel that had closely covered the case.

It is appealing the judge's decision requiring them to let him review footage and release relevant portions to the police.

[4] In the spring of 2012 the 35-year-old Moore, a Guyanese American, was living on Jefferson Place in the Bronx neighborhood of Claremont, two blocks south of Crotona Park.

They had investigated and confirmed reports that the children had been neglected, missing school and staying at home by themselves during some of Moore's frequent absences.

Moore did not have a job but was hoping to have at least her eldest child, her daughter Rashina, move back in later in the summer after the mother completed court-mandated required programs.

[1] On July 12 of that year, Bonie beat his wife with a tray table, his belt and his fists, resulting in a fractured skull.

The neighbor later told police that shortly after Moore had re-entered the house, she had heard her arguing with Bonie, and that after a loud bang the argument had ended.

One detective described them as "watchers" like the character played by Jimmy Stewart in the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window.

[3] A search of records related to Bonie's cell phone found a series of pings that night, as well as some calls from towers in Orange and Rockland counties, northwest of the city on the other side of the Hudson River.

One detective, Malcolm Reiman, worked with a ballistics expert to narrow a search area based on Bonie's known departure and arrival times at his house and an estimated rate of road travel speed.

[3] Eventually, the investigation developed enough evidence for police to get a search warrant for the basement under the apartment occupied by Moore.

In a toilet they found half a bag of charcoal, which they believed had intentionally been flushed to cause the backup from the sewers and destroy trace evidence.

But almost a year later, in May 2014, Bronx County prosecutors presented the evidence against Bonie to a grand jury, which indicted him on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.

[1] Since the early 19th century, American courts have tried over 400 murders in which the victim's body had not been found;[1] Bonie's case would have been the first in the Bronx.

"[1] But, prosecutors in Manhattan had gained convictions for con artists Sante and Kenny Kimes in the 1998 murder of their landlady, Irene Silverman, without her body having been found.

He denied any involvement in Moore's disappearance or death, saying that she had been a good tenant who had paid her rent on time.

[2] The day after the body was identified as Moore, Bonie appeared in court to face the pending assault case against his wife.

"[2] In September 2015 prosecutors issued a subpoena duces tecum to News 12, requesting that it turn over to them all the footage of reporter Ray Raimundi's jailhouse interview with Bonie.

In response, News 12 wrote to Fabrizio saying that they would provide a copy of the broadcast interview, but not the unaired portions, citing state shield laws.

The prosecutors responded that they sought to determine if there was additional evidence to support their theory of Bonie's alleged financial motive to murder Moore.

While News 12 had argued that the state had failed to demonstrate any basis for supposing that Bonie had confessed to the crime off camera, the judge said that the prosecution sought to learn whether he had made admissions relevant to the case.

"This is the classic case of overreach by a prosecutor who is attempting to use the work product of a reporter as an investigative tool for his criminal prosecution," said David Schulz, an attorney for the channel.