New York's Most Wanted: Suspect Boyfriend in Long Island City Artist's Slaying Soars to No. 1

No. 1 with a bullet is Tigran Tambiev, the new "Top Most Wanted" on the NYPD's list of alleged scumbags on the loose. Former No. 1 was Kendall Scott.

There's a new No. 1 on the NYPD's Most Wanted list: Tigran Tambiev, boyfriend of slain Long Island City artist Susan T. Woolf, is someone the city's cops really, really, really want to talk to.

Tambiev replaced Kendall Scott (believed to have shot a man to death this past October 25 in Spanish Harlem) as the Police Department's most sought-after guy. Both are still on the lam. (See the NYPD's latest Most Wanted gallery here.)

Woolf, a hard-working 49-year-old artist specializing in "site-specific sculptures" (see her work on this article's jump and on her home page), was found dead December 12 in her home, stabbed to death and with packing tape around her neck. Tambiev, a 43-year-old furniture mover with supposedly a heavy drinking problem, was her live-in boyfriend.

Woolf was a prominent member of a Long Island City cluster of artists and had a self-described "fascination with debris." Friends of hers have been quoted as saying that Tambiev was himself a piece of junk.

Susan T. Woolf's Quiet Piece 11. See her home page for more.

In September, cops had been called to the apartment she shared with Tambiev to investigate a domestic dispute. She had an order of protection against Tambiev, according to reports, but it had expired at the time of her own expiration.

More details in the Queens Courier and Daily News.