A property manager from Oklahoma who began transitioning in prison had previously decapitated a friend in his home state it emerged today as he admitted the murder of a New York antiques dealer.
Alex Ray Scott, 28, fled the Sooner State in 2019 to escape allegations she molested a five-year-old, but not before dismembering Robin Skocdopole, 63, with a chainsaw.
The revelations emerged as she appeared heavily made-up at Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday to admit killing Kenneth Savinski, 64, with a decorative plate, kitchen knife and ‘maybe a pen’ in January 2020.
‘Scott agreed to take the FBI to the last known location of Skocdopole’s head,’ the Department of Justice said in a release.
‘Unfortunately, when Scott took FBI to the location, no additional remains were found.’
Alex Ray Scott began transitioning in prison while awaiting trial for the murder of antiques dealer Kenneth Savinski, 64, in January 2020
Pictured in a 2018 booking photo after his arrest on charges of molesting a five-year-old
Scott came to the authority’s attention in January 2020 when she walked into a Manhattan police station covered in blood, and told officers: ‘I think I may have killed someone last night.’
By then police had already found the body of the elegant antiques dealer in his Upper East Side apartment on 83rd Street near Park Avenue.
Savinsky who met Scott on a dating site, was found with his throat cut and deep gashes to his head in the blood-spattered apartment.
Scott had been seen walking out of the apartment building, wearing Savinski’s black jacket and counting money with noticeable hand injuries.
Scott then allegedly used Savinski’s credit cards to pay for a hotel room in New Jersey, where the killer woke up the next day, covered in blood and apparently with little memory of what had happened the night before.
Savinski’s was one of five credit cards found on Scott, and investigators began tracing the owners of the others, one of whom was Skocdopole.
Scott told interviewers that she had lived at Skocpodole’s single-story home in Broken Arrow, but no-one picked up the phone there to investigators.
The Broken Arrow Police Department was dispatched to the address with a search warrant in February 2020 and found the house empty of all possessions but splattered with blood.
Three months later some of Skocpodole’s dismembered remains were found in a nearby creek with a medical examiner concluding that both a chainsaw and a manual saw had been used to cut them up.
Murder victim Kenneth Savinski (left) is seen with a friend at an event at Bergdorf Goodman’s Restaurant ‘BG’ in 2006. Savinski was an antiques dealer and decorator
Savinski, 64, was found dead in the living room of his first floor apartment on E. 83rd St. near Park Ave. about 5.20 p.m. on January 27, 2020
By then Scott had already murdered and dismembered Robin Skocdopole, 63, at the home they shared together in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
It was May 2023 before Scott admitted to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in a fruitless search for the 63-year-old’s missing head.
By then Scott was awaiting trial for Savinski’s murder at a Rikers Island detention center reserved for female adults and adolescents after she began transitioning while in custody.
But it was May 2023 before Scott admitted to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in a fruitless search for the 63-year-old’s missing head.
The FBI was leading the investigation into Skocpodole’s death because it took place on one of Oklahoma’s native American reservations.
They discovered that Scott, herself a member of the Cherokee Nation, had been fitted with an ankle monitor in July 2019 as she awaited trial for forcing a co-worker’s five-year-old son to engage in oral sex.
She was renting a room in Skocdopole’s home at the time and told friends that her landlord had moved to Dallas for work when Skocdopole vanished in August.
Investigators later spoke to friends to reported receiving ‘vague and oddly worded’ emails from Skocpodole explaining his disappearance which Scott later admitted writing.
And data from Scott’s ankle monitor data and bank history confirmed that she had purchased and then returned a chainsaw at a local Walmart, while further analysis of the tag led them to where the killer had disposed of some body parts.
In October she fled to Long Island where she was arrested for fleeing the child sex charges and told police he had gone there to kill herself.
Unaware at that point of Skocdopole’s disappearance they took Scott to a psychiatric hospital for observation and later back to Tulsa to be charged with two counts of lewd molestation.
She had worked for a property management firm in Tulsa and in 2017 was pictured at a fashion show event in support of the Children’s Abuse Network of Tulsa which raised $30,000.
Victim Kenneth Savinski (center) is seen with two friends in 2006. He moved his antique store to NYC from Maryland in 2000 and received a favorable mention in the New York Times
Scott is seen at a 2017 fashion show fundraiser supporting the Children’s Abuse Network
Scott was originally booked as a male in January 2020 (seen above) on charges of murder, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property
Scott is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court but will be returned on release to Oklahoma to serve out 45-year sentence there
But she was back in New York by Christmas 2019, staying on friends’ sofas and arranging hook-ups on dating sites, the last of which was with Savinski.
In May of this year she was sentenced to 45 years by a US District judge for the Second Degree Murder in Indian Country of Skocpodole.
Details emerged today as she admitted his guilt to the second-degree murder of Savinski.
She is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court but will be returned on release to Oklahoma to serve out her sentence there.
Addressing the court, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann congratulated law enforcement on resolving a complex case that involved federal, state and local investigations.
‘I’ve been a prosecutor now for over 41 years, and I’d be hard-pressed to find an investigation and prosecution that was more thorough or of a high level than this case,’ he added.
Scott is expected back in court for formal sentencing on September 26.
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