Christa Nicole was just 2 when her mother Christine Belusko was found beaten to death in Staten Island. Police just recently identified her remains.
Prosecutors released this image of what Christa Nicole Belusko would look like in 2023. She was 2 when her mother was killed.Law-enforcement officials are hoping to bring the killer responsible for Christine Belusko’s killing in Ocean Breeze, Staten Island more than three decades ago to justice, but an inquiry into the victim’s past provided another mystery for investigators.
“We can never bring her [Christine] back, but we want Christa Nicole to know, and her family, that she was never forgotten,” District Attorney Michael E. McMahon said during a press conference Tuesday. “We are seeking the public’s assistance in solving the homicide and determining the whereabouts of Christa Nicole,” said Dave Nilsen, chief of the district attorney’s Detective Investigators Squad.Detectives photograph and examine the area where the body of a woman was found in Ocean Breeze in 199.
The woman was found wearing a black dress, two gold chains, a ring watch, and she had with her a pack of Newport cigarettes. She also had a distinctive scorpion tattoo. Investigators determined that Belusko had been struck 17 times in the back of the head with 13-inch “work style” hammer that was found under her black dress.
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