Ex-con Hassan Malik—who previously confessed to killing Betty Williams with an electrical cord and a frying pan and stuffing her body in a suitcase, which he left on a corner in East Harlem—has now pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. He claims he paid Williams for sex in his Pleasant Avenue apartment, but the two got into a fight after he allegedly caught her stealing his money. He also said she attacked him first, and he just used the improvised weapons on her in self-defense. However, Williams's sister insists she was not a hooker: "How those two met, we don't know and we'll never know."