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

A hulking maniac who allegedly tortured his 21-year-old girlfriend and left her to die in a Bronx stairwell was arrested Saturday after a days-long manhunt, police said.

Robert Strother was nabbed for allegedly tying Princesa Encarnacion-Soto to a bed and stabbing her from head to toe July 22 at a Fordham Heights building, cops said.

Strother was charged with murder, manslaughter, hindering prosecution, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence, cops said.

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