{"id":215993,"date":"2026-04-30T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:08:16","slug":"nyc-dad-found-dismembered-in-colombia-was-there-to-meet-new-wife-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215993\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC dad found dismembered in Colombia was there to meet new wife: pal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Hasidic dad from Brooklyn whose body was dismembered and dumped<\/a> by Colombian thugs was in South America to meet a potential new wife, a close pal told The Post.<\/p>\n

Nachum Israel Eber, 51, a member of the Boro Park Belz Hasidic community, was found dismembered inside a bloody wardrobe that was dumped on a street in Bogota on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Colombian authorities and media mistook the visitor from the Big Apple as a rabbi \u2014 though his friends say he was a building developer and plumber.<\/p>\n

Nachum Israel Eber, 51, traveled to Colombia to meet a potential wife, his friend said. JamPress<\/p>\n

Passersby reported a blood-soaked wardrobe dumped on a sidewalk in Bogota on Sunday. JamPress<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible tragedy,\u201d close friend Motti Dresdner said on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cA person, a gentleman in his prime. He was always talking about his future, how he was going to get remarried and find\u00a0a perfect bride, and have a beautiful life. And to be cut off like this is very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dresdner said Eber, a divorced dad, had found a possible new wife in the Hasidic community in Bogota, and traveled there to meet her.<\/p>\n

Eber was captured on haunting surveillance video leaving his Airbnb in the Colombian capital around 9 p.m. on April 21 \u2014 then disappeared without a trace.<\/p>\n

Days later, bystanders reported seeing the bloody wardrobe on the other side of the city, which was later confirmed by authorities as Eber. <\/p>\n

Police have not determined a motive for the grisly slaying, but believe he may have been targeted by violent gangs that thrive on robbing tourists. <\/p>\n

Nachum Israel Eber, 51, was last seen on surveillance video in Bogota on April 21. JamPress<\/p>\n

Surveillance video shows Nachem Israel Eber leaving his Airbnb in Bogota for the last time on April 21. JamPress<\/p>\n

Eber\u2019s family is now making arrangements to bring his body home for burial. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t hurt a fly,\u201d Dresdner said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always kind, always with a smile. He always spoke positively. In his hardest times, he would always talk about how things are going to work out for the best, he makes the best of everything. He always tried to make lemonade out of lemons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe community is devastated, the community is in shock, how a person goes there just to take care of\u00a0 personal business and end up like this,\u201d he added. \u201cIt just makes everything feel unstable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials at the US Embassy in Bogota did not immediately respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Additional reporting by Emily Crane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hasidic dad from Brooklyn whose body was dismembered and dumped by Colombian thugs was in South America…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,6611,6809,50114,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,58,1076],"class_list":["post-215993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-colombia","tag-gangs","tag-hasidic-judaism","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215993","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=215993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}