local media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe 51-year-old father, who was a member of the Belz Hasidic community in Brooklyn\u2019s Boro Park, had traveled to the South American country earlier this month to help advise a congregation of Catholics who had converted to Judaism.<\/p>\n
Nachum Israel Eber, a 51-year-old rabbi from Brooklyn, was found dead in Bogota, Colombia, on Sunday. JamPress<\/p>\n
Authorities started searching for him after relatives in the Big Apple reported he had suddenly gone silent and stopped answering their calls. <\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured Eber leaving his Airbnb on April 21 just after 9 p.m before he vanished without a trace.<\/p>\n
Days later, locals reported finding the blue wardrobe with bloodstains around it on a street on the opposite side of the city. <\/p>\n
The 51-year-old divorced father\u2019s mutilated remains were discovered inside an abandoned blue closet that was dumped on a street in Bogota on Sunday. JamPress<\/p>\n
Authorities have since confirmed the remains are that of the missing rabbi. <\/p>\n
Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the grim slaying but believe he may have been targeted by a gang that zeroes in on tourists. <\/p>\n
They believe he was likely murdered when gangbangers were stealing his belongings and identification documents, local media reported. <\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured Nuchem leaving his Airbnb on April 21 just after 9 p.m before he vanished without a trace. JamPress<\/p>\n
Eber\u2019s family is now in the process of trying to have his remains transported to Israel for burial.<\/p>\n
They are liaising with Colombian authorities in a bid to prevent investigators from carrying out an autopsy as part of their investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York rabbi was found dismembered and stuffed inside a blood-stained wardrobe after he was attacked and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6611,238,9,24,55,54,56,8035,1076],"class_list":["post-215461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-colombia","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-rabbis","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}