BRONX, NY — A Bronx man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend in his room at a mental health facility, leaving her body undiscovered for days, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced.
Waheed Foster, 44, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and third-degree assault in October 2024. He was sentenced on December 19, 2024, to 18 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision. The sentence will run consecutively to a 22-year sentence Foster is already serving for an unrelated case in Queens.
According to investigators, on August 4, 2022, Jessica Miller, 41, visited Foster at the mental health facility where he lived in the Bronx. The two were seen entering the building together, and Foster signed in at the front desk before taking Miller to his room. That evening, Foster left the facility and did not return.
Two days later, on August 6, 2022, a staff member performing a wellness check discovered Miller’s lifeless body in Foster’s bed. An autopsy conducted by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner determined she had been strangled. Foster, already in custody for a prior case in Queens, was indicted in November 2022 following the release of the medical examiner’s findings.
District Attorney Clark described the case as a “horrific act of violence,” adding, “The defendant left her lifeless body in his bed for days until staff found her during a wellness check.”