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CBS 2 Exclusive: Time Hasn't Healed Saint Guillens

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Feb 24, 2007 11:01 am US/Eastern

CBS 2 Exclusive: Time Hasn't Healed Saint Guillens

Family Of Murdered Student Reflect On 1-Year Anniversary

SLIDESHOW: Evidence In Imette Saint Guillen Murder

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by Scott Weinberger
NEW YORK (CBS) ― A year has past, but the pain still remains for the family of murdered graduate student Imette Saint Guillen.

"Just everything about her, it's a huge hole, a big empty space, it's always going to be there," said Maureen Saint Guillen, Imette's mother.

The mother and Imette's sister, Alejandra, agreed to an exclusive interview with CBS 2 News as the family prepares for the first anniversary of Imette's death.

"It's a year of firsts and lasts," Alejandra said. "You know the last time I saw Imette, the last time I talked to her, the last time I held her, the last time I told her I loved her, my first Christmas without her, my first birthday without her, you're marked by all these anniversaries."

On Feb. 25, 2006, Imette Saint Guillen went to The Falls bar in SoHo just before 3 am. Sixteen hours later, her nude and battered body was found in a desolate section of East New York, Brooklyn. She had been raped, and then suffocated.

Police believe she spent the last moments of her life inside the Queens basement apartment of The Falls bouncer Darryl Littlejohn, who is now awaiting trial for her murder.

"They have the wrong person. I'm a likely suspect because I have a criminal background," Littlejohn told CBS last year in an exclusive jailhouse interview.

For the Saint Guillen family keeping Imette's spirit alive means making sure nobody forgets.

"That's the one thing we never never want. You never want people to say Imette who?" Maureen Saint Guillen said.

The attorney for the family, Joseph Tacopina has filed a civil lawsuit against the owners of The Falls, now closed, for hiring Littlejohn, who was on parole at the time of the murder.

Additional Coverage
Slideshow: Evidence In Imette Saint Guillen Murder
  June 4: Saint Guillen Scholarship Awarded At John Jay
March 22: Part I Of Jailhouse Interview With Littlejohn
March 22: Part II Of Jailhouse Interview With Littlejohn
  April 27: Littlejohn Pleads Not Guilty To Second Assault
March 10: Saint Guillen's Friends Focus On Falls' Owners
March 1: For Now, Murdered Student's Trail Ends At The Falls
March 17: Key Saint Guillen Witness Is 2nd Bouncer With Criminal Past

(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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