Arrest made in torture, murder of 21-year-old woman after weeklong manhunt for her boyfriend

A person is in custody following a dayslong manhunt after a Bronx brute allegedly tortured and murdered his 21-year-old girlfriend and dumped her body in a stairwell.

Princesa Encarnacion-Soto was stabbed from head to toe, possibly beaten with a hammer on July 22 and left to die on a staircase at the Fordham Heights building on Grand Concourse near East 183rd Street, cops said.

On Thursday, the NYPD released a photo of Robert Strother, Encarnacion-Soto’s boyfriend and the suspect in the slaying, after searching for him for more than a week.

Investigators believe Princesa Encarnacion-Soto, 21, was tied down to the bed while her boyfriend allegedly tortured her. facebook

Robert Strother was pictured for the first time, showing the suspect strutting with his hand tucked into the pocket of his red sweatpants DCPI

Encarnacion-Soto was staying in the building Strother and his mother, 54-year-old Naida Jorge, cops said.

Police could not confirm Strother was the person arrested but were preparing charges, they said Saturday.