Sex, drugs and murder: Two men are indicted in the stabbing death of a woman in Camden’s Farnham Park

Two Camden men have been indicted by a grand jury on murder, armed robbery and related charges in the death of a woman who was found fatally stabbed in the city’s Farnham Park last year.

Luis Colon-Molina, 36, and Wilfredo Boulones-Cruz, 50, are accused of killing Hayley Steinberg, 31, of Medford.

Camden County Police responded to the park, on the 1600 block of Baird Boulevard, about noon Dec. 2 and found Steinberg dead from multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the upper body, authorities said. A bent kitchen knife with blood on it was found next to her body, according to the affidavit of probable cause for the men’s arrests.

A law enforcement source said Steinberg and the two men knew each other and had done drugs together, including on the day of her death.

Authorities said the two men were a couple. Colon-Molina, they said, had told his partner he wanted to have sex with Steinberg. His boyfriend agreed, but later regretted that decision, the source said, a change of heart that allegedly triggered the fatal confrontation.

Surveillance footage showed that on the afternoon of Dec. 1, Steinberg drove to the home Colon-Molina and Boulones-Cruz shared on the 1500 block of South Seventh Street, then drove away with the two men inside her red 2016 Mercedes-Benz E-350.

Other surveillance video showed a red Mercedes entering Farnham Park shortly after 3 p.m. that day with what appeared to be Steinberg’s body lying across the rear car seat.

An hour before her body was found, investigators said, Delaware River Port Authority police officers had responded to a report of a stalled Mercedes on the Ben Franklin Bridge. Colon-Molina and Boulones-Cruz, who were found walking on the roadway of the bridge, told police their car had run out of gas, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said. After DPRA officers helped them push the vehicle off the bridge into Camden, the two men ran out of the vehicle, authorities said.

After a brief foot chase, DRPA police caught up with the men. Police found a large amount of blood in the vehicle, and the two men were placed in custody at the Camden County Correctional Facility.

Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Jose Rosado and Camden County Police Detective Sean Miller, who handled the investigation, learned that the car was registered to Steinberg’s mother and that Steinberg was known to drive it.

On Dec. 5, a relative of Steinberg’s reported an attempted transaction on her TD Bank debit card about 6:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at the New Star Chinese takeout in North Philadelphia, the statement says. Surveillance video showed the men in the takeout about that time, authorities said.

The two men were each charged on Dec. 9 with murder and armed robbery offenses.

In addition to those crimes, the grand jury indicted them on charges of carjacking, weapons offenses, and resisting arrest.

A GoFundMe page created by Steinberg’s family described her as the loving mother of a 7-year-old girl who was actively involved in the addiction recovery community.