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NEW YORK (AP) - New York Police Detective James Osorio was struck by the details of two cases mentioned at a training session he attended at FBI headquarters last year. The dismemberment killings of two women in Albania, he noted, echoed the 1990 beating and dismemberment of a Bronx widow. Osorio's observation has now led to the arrest of a man in Montenegro who is a suspect in similar slayings throughout Europe, officials said.
The suspect, identified in Montenegro as Smail Tulja, 67, was arrested in his home in the tiny Balkan country's capital, Podgorica, on an FBI warrant, officials said. An FBI affidavit filed in the United States identified the suspect as Smajo Djurlric; the NYPD said his name was Smajo Dzurlic.
U.S. officials said Tulja was wanted in the unsolved slaying of Mary Beal, 61, of the Bronx, and may be involved in up to seven other killings of women in Belgium and Albania.
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