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Cody Martin strangled Brandy Odom and dismembered her body for life insurance money, authorities said. (Mug shot: U.S. Department of Justice; image of Odom: a Facebook post in her account, dated Jan. 3, 2018)

Cody Martin, left, strangled Brandy Odom, right, and dismembered her body for life insurance money, authorities said. (Mug shot: U.S. Department of Justice; image of Odom: a Facebook post in her account, dated Jan. 3, 2018)

Jurors in a Brooklyn federal court on Monday convicted a New York man — who apparently watched a TV show about a serial killer for inspiration — of murdering a woman to collect on life insurance policies.

Cory Martin, 36, faces life in prison at a sentencing hearing set for July 23.

Prosecutors said he and his co-defendant, Adelle Anderson, 35, took out the policies on the life of Brandy Odom, 26. Then he strangled the victim in April 2018, purchased a reciprocating saw, and dismembered her in a bathtub before he, with Anderson’s help, discarded the remains in Canarsie Park.

“It is fitting that Martin faces a mandatory sentence to spend the rest of his life in prison for this ghastly, coldblooded crime that was motivated by greed and executed after extensive planning,” United States Attorney Breon Peace of the Eastern District of New York said. “Martin saw the victim as a moneymaker, trafficking her for commercial sex, then after killing her with his bare hands, tossing out her slaughtered body parts like trash so he could profit from her death. Brandy Odom suffered an unthinkable death at the defendant’s hands, but her life mattered and I hope that this verdict holding the defendant responsible brings some measure of closure to her family.”

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