NEW YORK (AP/1010 WINS) -- Authorities are questioning a person of interest in connection with the disappearance of a missing Washington Heights mother -- who vanished from a Manhattan office tower midway through her shift on the evening cleaning crew -- and say they suspect fould play was involved.
Carol D'Auria reports
Eridania Rodriguez, 46, disappeared from her job in the financial district Tuesday night. She punched in for her shift at 2 Rector Street, worked a few hours in the building and was last seen on security cameras around 7 p.m., said a lawyer for her family, Daniel Ferreira.
The building's cameras never recorded her leaving the skyscraper, he said. She didn't meet up with co-workers at the end of her shift, as usual, for her regular subway ride home to Washington Heights section. Her purse and street clothes were still in her locker.
Police searched the building Wednesday, but found no trace of Rodriguez
The woman's family is distraught and fears the worst, Ferreira said.
"She had been complaining about a guy at the building who made her kind of nervous,'' he said. "And she worked on floors that had been empty.''
Rodriguez is the sister of Victor Martinez, a top-ranked professional bodybuilder.
The tower that is the setting for the mystery lies just a few hundred feet from the massive World Trade Center reconstruction site. Its tenants include the studio of ground zero architect Daniel Libeskind.
Built in 1909, the skyscraper has more than 400,000 square feet of interior space and rises 26 stories.
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