Possible suspect in Chanel Petro-Nixon murder investigation

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From today's NY Post:

PIMP EYED IN 2ND SLAY
The New York Post

By LARRY CELONA

August 29, 2006 --

EXCLUSIVE

The pimp accused in the high-profile murder of a New Jersey girl he picked up after she left a Chelsea nightclub could be the same sadistic sicko responsible for the unsolved slaying of a churchgoing teenager in Brooklyn, according to authorities.

Cops have been showing a picture of Draymond Coleman, 34 - arrested for the gruesome July murder of Jennifer Moore, 18 - around Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Chanel Petro-Nixon, 16, went missing from her home a month earlier, the sources said.

They have also been showing Coleman's mug shot and that of his alleged accomplice, hooker Krystal Riordan, to people in police custody on unrelated crimes in Brooklyn.

Police sources said there are similarities:

* Both girls were choked to death.

* Both had their pants pulled down, although Moore was raped while Petro-Nixon was not.

* Their bodies were stuffed into black garbage bags and dumped.

After speaking to New Jersey investigators, Brooklyn cops believe the two murders could be Coleman's handiwork, the sources said.

After she was killed in a New Jersey motel room, Moore's fingernails were clipped and her body washed down in bleach, an effort to erase clues.

The body of Petro-Nixon, a top high school student, was found four days after she vanished on Father's Day, with a chemical scar on her leg - possibly caused by bleach.

The connection may be a long shot, but cops said they are leaving no stone unturned in an effort to solve the Brooklyn teen's murder.

"Until we get something concrete we can't rule anyone out," said a law-enforcement source.