An Oklahoma property manager who began his transition in prison had previously beheaded a friend in his home state, it emerged today after he confessed to the murder of a New York antiques dealer.
Alex Ray Scott, 28, fled the Sooner State in 2019 to escape charges she abused a 5-year-old child, but not before dismembering Robin Skocdopole, 63, with a chainsaw.
The revelations came as she appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday in a heavily fabricated plea to confess to killing Kenneth Savinski, 64, in January 2020 with a decorative plate, a kitchen knife and “maybe a pen.”
“Scott agreed to send the FBI to the last known location of Skocdopole’s head,” the Justice Department said in a news release.
“Unfortunately, no further remains were found when Scott brought the FBI to the location.”
Alex Ray Scott began his transition in prison while awaiting trial for the January 2020 murder of antiques dealer Kenneth Savinski, 64
Pictured in a 2018 booking photo following his arrest on charges of molesting a five-year-old child
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 killed someone last night.”
By then, police had found the body of the elegant antiques dealer in his apartment on 83rd Street on the Upper East Side, just off Park Avenue.
Savinsky, who met Scott on a dating website, was found in the blood-stained apartment with his throat slit and deep cuts to his head.
Scott was seen walking out of the apartment building wearing Savinski’s black jacket, counting money and showing visible injuries to his hands.
Scott then allegedly used Savinski’s credit cards to pay for a hotel room in New Jersey. The next day, the killer woke up 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. Detectives began searching for the owners of the other cards, including Skocdopole.
Scott told interviewers that she lived in Skocpodole’s one-story home in Broken Arrow, but that no one there answered the phone to speak to investigators.
In February 2020, Broken Arrow police were dispatched to the address with a search warrant and found the home empty, but covered in blood.
Three months later, some of Skocpodole’s mutilated remains were found in a nearby creek. A coroner concluded that both a chainsaw and a handsaw had been used to dismember the remains.
Murder victim Kenneth Savinski (left) is seen with a friend at an event at Bergdorf Goodman’s Restaurant ‘BG’ in 2006. Savinski was an antique dealer and decorator
Savinski, 64, was found dead in the living room of his first-floor apartment on E. 83rd St., near Park Ave., about 5:20 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2020
By then, Scott had already murdered and dismembered Robin Skocdopole, 63, in the home they shared in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
It wasn’t until May 2023 that Scott confessed to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in a fruitless search for the 63-year-old man’s missing head.
Scott was at the time awaiting trial for Savinski’s murder in a Rikers Island detention center reserved for adult women and adolescents, after she had transitioned while in custody.
It was not until May 2023 that Scott confessed to Skocpodole’s murder and agreed to take part in a fruitless search for the 63-year-old man’s missing head.
The FBI led the investigation into Skocpodole’s death because it occurred on one of Oklahoma’s Indian reservations.
They discovered that Scott, herself a member of the Cherokee Nation, had been fitted with an ankle monitor in July 2019 while awaiting trial for forcing a coworker’s five-year-old son to perform oral sex.
She was renting a room in Skocdopole’s home at the time and told friends that her landlord had moved to Dallas for work when Skocdopole disappeared in August.
Investigators later spoke to friends and reported receiving “vague and oddly worded” emails from Skocpodole explaining his disappearance. Scott later admitted to writing them.
Data from Scott’s ankle bracelet and bank history confirmed that she had purchased and returned a chainsaw to a local Walmart. Further analysis of the tag led to the location where the killer had dumped several body parts.
In October, she fled to Long Island, where she was arrested for hit-and-run, telling police she had gone there to commit suicide.
Because they didn’t know at the time that Skocdopole was gone, they took Scott to a psychiatric hospital for observation. They later returned to Tulsa, where they charged him with two counts of sexual assault.
She worked for a property management company in Tulsa and was photographed in 2017 at a fashion show in support of the Children’s Abuse Network of Tulsa, which raised $30,000.
Victim Kenneth Savinski (center) is seen with two friends in 2006. He moved his antique shop from Maryland to NYC in 2000 and was featured in the New York Times
Scott is seen at a 2017 fashion show to raise money for the Children’s Abuse Network
Scott was originally arrested as a man in January 2020 (seen above) on charges of murder, aggravated robbery and criminal possession of stolen property.
Scott is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea agreement with the New York court, but will be returned to Oklahoma upon his release to serve his 45-year sentence.
But by Christmas 2019, she was back in New York, sleeping on friends’ couches and arranging dates on dating sites. The last time was with Savinski.
In May of this year, she was sentenced by a US district judge to 45 years in prison for second-degree murder in the Skocpodole Indian Territory.
Today, more details emerged when she pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Savinski.
She is expected to serve a minimum of 22 years in prison as part of a plea agreement with the New York court, but after her release she will be returned to Oklahoma to serve her sentence there.
In his address to the court, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann congratulated law enforcement for solving a complex case involving federal, state and local investigations.
“I have been a prosecutor for 41 years now and I would be hard-pressed to find an investigation and prosecution more thorough and of a higher standard than this case,” he added.
Scott is expected to appear in court again on September 26 for a formal sentencing.