NYC dad found murdered in Colombia was looking for new bride after his marriage to teenager failed
Nachum Israel Eber, a 51-year-old Orthodox man from Brooklyn, was found murdered in Bogota, Colombia, after traveling there to find a bride following two failed marriages. He had recently ended a brief marriage to an 18-year-old woman who felt unready for matrimony, and was reportedly seeking a new partner at the time of his death. Eber's body was discovered dismembered inside a wardrobe, and authorities are investigating the killing, which may be linked to targeted robbery.
- ▪Nachum Israel Eber was a member of the Boro Park Belz Hasidic community in Brooklyn.
- ▪He traveled to Colombia to find a bride after divorcing his first wife, with whom he had four children and two grandchildren.
- ▪Eber's second marriage to an 18-year-old woman in Barranquilla ended in January when she said she felt too young to be married.
- ▪His friend Yosef Matheron said Eber drew attention to himself in Colombia by speaking multiple languages and displaying behaviors unfamiliar to the local environment.
- ▪Eber's body was found in a dismembered state inside an abandoned wardrobe on a street in Bogota.
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Metro NYC dad found murdered in Colombia was looking for new bride after his marriage to teenager failed By Adry Torres and Tina Moore Published May 2, 2026, 9:00 a.m. ET The Brooklyn Orthodox man brutally murdered in Colombia was reeling from the end of his one-month marriage to a teen bride — and was desperately looking for a new love when he was killed. The body of Nachum Israel Eber was found dismembered inside a bloody wardrobe that was dumped on a street in Bogota on Sunday. Yosef Matheron, a Colombian man who befriended Eber and helped translate for him, told The Post how Eber had met his 18-year-old wife before the brief union unraveled in January.
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