Yale Dismemberment

Police Say Suspect in Yale Killing Hid Bloody Tissues - NYTimes.com

Blood here, blood there, her blood everywhere... yet she died of strangulation?

Possibly, before strangling her, the psycho beat her, cut her up, etc. before finally choking her to death. I think that's something more likely in fiction than reality, as long as it is correct that she indeed died by strangulation.

I think the psycho killed her in a fit of rage for something probably really stupid and petty, then self preservation kicked in and he had to hide the body. So how do you get a body into a tight place as efficiently as possible? Dismemberment.

How else would blood have gotten everywhere? Why else to make sure that the area below the sink is spotless?

The guy must have really despised her, or is a total sociopath. Probably the latter more than the former. Murder is bad enough, a sociopath who murders is even worse, and a sociopath who almost gets away with it, is almost the worst, and of course the sociopath who gets away with it, is just downright scary shit.