Andrea Zamperoni, 33, was a prized head chef at Cipriani Dolci in New York who disappeared in August 2019 after failing to show up for work and missing his daily call to his mother in Italy. Concern escalated when he could not be reached and friends reported him missing.

His body was later found at the Kamway Lodge in Elmhurst, Queens, a motel known in reports for prostitution and drug activity. Police entered a room where the smell of a deceased person and burning incense were present, and discovered Zamperoni wrapped in a blanket and stuffed in a garbage can, a foot protruding from the sheets.

Investigators say Angelina Barini, 41, a sex worker with prior arrests for drugs and prostitution, was in the room and initially blamed her pimp before admitting she had given Zamperoni drugs after he paid for sex and that he began bleeding and did not wake. Further reporting links Barini and an associate, Leslie Lescano, to an alleged plot to drug and rob men using the date-rape drug GBL; Lescano is accused of supplying the drug and later using Zamperoni’s credit card.

If anyone knew Zamperoni’s movements in Queens that August or has information about the Kamway Lodge room, please come forward.