DR Man Accused Of Murdering, Dismembering Wife Nabbed In Lynn

BOSTON, MA — A Dominican national accused of murdering and dismembering his wife appeared in federal court Thursday. Daniel Emilio Frias Segura, charged with the 2010 murder of his wife, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Lynn a day after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. An arrest warrant was issued for Frias Segura on April 9, 2010, by a judge in the Dominican Republic. He is being held pending extradition.

Dominican authorities said someone sailing on the Haina River in the Dominican saw a woman's floating torso floating on April 1, 2010. One day later, the woman's decapitated head was found inside two black plastic bags. A day after that, her legs and left arm were found along the river. An autopsy determined she had been strangled to death.

Dominican investigators said that on March 31, 2010, two people were driving on a freeway when a young woman jumped in front of her vehicle screaming that someone wanted to kill her. The woman ran into the back seat of the vehicle, but a man came out of the vehicle she had been in and violently removed her, according to investigators. The man allegedly waived a gun and threatened that the people shouldn't get involved with him and his wife.

The next day, the woman's torso was found in the river. Frias Segura allegedly fled the Dominican for Puerto Rico the following day. He ended up in Lynn.

The two people identified Frias Segura as that man with the gun.

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