Their Harlem neighbors saw the perfect couple: The gleeful dad hoisting the little girl onto his shoulders, the costumed mom and their 5-year-old daughter side by side on Halloween, the daily smiles and the small talk.
The cops inside the family’s condo after a 911 call saw something unspeakably different: Wife Jennifer Schlecht lying dead on the bloody bathroom floor, her decapitated head in her lap. Her lifeless daughter Abaynesh, with a gash so deep to her throat that she was left headless, inside a gore-spattered bedroom.
And their killer, deranged dad Yonathan Tedla, hanging from a rope tied to his child’s door on Wednesday night after making good on his threats to end Schlecht’s life before she could end their faltering marriage.