BRONX MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDERING HIS NEIGHBOR

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a 42 year-old Bronx man has
pled guilty to the 2004 murder of his 47 year-old neighbor
.
Edward Smalls, of 2861 Exterior Street, pled guilty to Murder in the 2nd degree in the death of
Lydia Frazier, in March 2004. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Smalls will be sentenced to an
indeterminate term of 15 years to life imprisonment when he appears before Acting State Supreme Court
Justice William Mogulescu on Tuesday, November 17, 2006 in Part M30. The People had recommended
that the defendant receive a sentence of 20 years to life imprisonment.

In a written confession, Smalls admitted that on March 12, 2004, he struck the victim in the head
with a hammer, dismembered her body in his bathtub, and then placed her corpse in a 50 gallon plastic
container. Smalls stated that he then placed the victim in his bedroom closet until April 2005.

Smalls further confessed that he could no longer live with the corpse and disposed of it behind
his building on April 15, 2005. Frazier's body was discovered by building maintenance workers along
with the knives used to dismember the victim later that day.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Cristina S. Park of the Gangs/ Major Case Bureau.