An Oklahoma property manager who began his transition in prison had previously decapitated a friend in his home state, it emerged today as he admitted to the murder of a New York antiques dealer.
Alex Ray Scott, 28, fled the Sooner State in 2019 to escape allegations that he sexually abused a five-year-old boy, but not before dismembering Robin Skocdopole, 63, with a chainsaw.
The revelations emerged as she appeared heavily made up in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday to admit to murdering Kenneth Savinski, 64, with a decorative plate, a kitchen knife and “maybe a pen” in January 2020.
“Scott agreed to lead the FBI to the last known location of Skocdopole’s head,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
‘Unfortunately, when Scott brought the FBI to the scene, no additional remains were found.’
Alex Ray Scott began his transition in prison while awaiting trial for the murder of 64-year-old antiques dealer Kenneth Savinski in January 2020.
He appears in a 2018 booking photo after his arrest on charges of sexually abusing a five-year-old girl.
Scott came to the attention of authorities in January 2020 when she walked into a Manhattan police station covered in blood and told officers, “I think I may have killed someone last night.”
By then police had found the body of the elegant antiques dealer in his Upper East Side apartment on 83rd Street, near Park Avenue.
Savinsky, who met Scott on a dating site, was found with his throat slit and deep cuts to his head in the blood-spattered apartment.
Scott had been seen leaving the apartment building, wearing Savinski’s black jacket and counting money with visible wounds on his hands.
Scott then allegedly used Savinski’s credit cards to pay for a hotel room in New Jersey, where the killer woke up the next day, covered in blood and apparently with little memory of what had happened the night before.
Savinski’s was one of five credit cards found on Scott, and investigators began tracking down the owners of the others, one of whom was Skocdopole.
Scott told interviewers he had lived in Skocpodole’s single-story home in Broken Arrow, but no one answered the phone there to call investigators.
The Broken Arrow Police Department was dispatched to the address with a search warrant in February 2020 and found the home empty of all possessions but splattered with blood.
Three months later, some of Skocpodole’s dismembered remains were found in a nearby creek and a medical examiner concluded that both a chainsaw and a handsaw had been used to cut them up.
Murder victim Kenneth Savinski (left) is seen with a friend at an event at Bergdorf Goodman’s ‘BG’ restaurant in 2006. Savinski was an antiques dealer and decorator.
Savinski, 64, was found dead in the living room of his first-floor apartment on E. 83rd St. near Park Ave. at approximately 5:20 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2020.
By then, Scott had already murdered and dismembered Robin Skocdopole, 63, at the home they shared together in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
It was not until May 2023 that Scott admitted to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in an unsuccessful search for the 63-year-old’s missing head.
By then, Scott was awaiting trial for Savinski’s murder at a Rikers Island detention center reserved for adult women and teenage girls after she began her transition while in custody.
But it was not until May 2023 that Scott admitted to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in an unsuccessful search for the 63-year-old’s missing head.
The FBI led the investigation into Skocpodole’s death because it took place on one of Oklahoma’s Native American reservations.
They discovered that Scott, a member of the Cherokee Nation, had been fitted with an ankle monitor in July 2019 while awaiting trial for forcing a co-worker’s five-year-old son to perform oral sex.
At the time, she was renting a room in Skocdopole’s home and told friends that her landlord had moved to Dallas for work when Skocdopole disappeared in August.
Investigators later spoke to friends who reported receiving “vague, oddly worded” emails from Skocpodole explaining her disappearance — emails that Scott later admitted to writing.
And data from Scott’s ankle monitor and banking history confirmed that she had purchased and then returned a chainsaw at a local Walmart, while further analysis of the tag led them to where the killer had disposed of some body parts.
In October, she fled to Long Island, where she was arrested on charges of fleeing child sexual abuse and told police she had gone there to commit suicide.
Unaware at the time of Skocdopole’s disappearance, Scott was taken to a psychiatric hospital for observation and then returned to Tulsa to be charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation.
She had worked for a property management company in Tulsa and in 2017 was photographed at a fashion show in support of the Tulsa Child Abuse Network, which raised $30,000.
Victim Kenneth Savinski (center) is shown with two friends in 2006. He moved his antiques store from Maryland to New York in 2000 and received a favorable mention in the New York Times.
Scott is seen at a 2017 fashion show to raise funds to support the Child Abuse Network.
Scott was originally booked as a man in January 2020 (see above) on charges of murder, grand larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property.
Scott is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court, but will be returned upon release to Oklahoma to serve his 45-year sentence there.
But she returned to New York for Christmas 2019, crashing on friends’ couches and arranging meetups on dating sites, the last of which was with Savinski.
In May of this year, a U.S. district judge sentenced her to 45 years in prison for second-degree murder in Skocpodole Indian Country.
Details emerged today as she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of Savinski.
She is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court, but upon her release she will be returned to Oklahoma to serve her sentence there.
Addressing the court, Manhattan Deputy District Attorney Joel Seidemann congratulated law enforcement for solving a complex case that involved federal, state and local investigations.
“I have been a prosecutor for over 41 years and I would be hard pressed to find a more thorough and high-level investigation and prosecution than this case,” he added.
Scott is expected back in court for formal sentencing on September 26.