WHITE PLAINS, NY (May 7, 2026) —Kenya Tilford, 43, of New Rochelle, who was sentenced last month to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Westchester County’s first torture-murder prosecution, has been transferred to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, state custody records show.
Tilford was booked into the maximum-security women’s prison in Bedford Hills on May 6, 2026, according to records from the New York State Department of Corrections. Her DOCCS inmate ID is 26G0253.
Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace announced Tilford’s April 23 sentencing following her conviction at trial on a charge of Murder in the First Degree under New York’s torture-murder provision, along with multiple additional felony charges. Judge George Fufidio imposed the sentence and issued permanent orders of protection for multiple victims.
“This was the first time a torture-murder case has been prosecuted in Westchester County’s history,” the District Attorney’s Office said.
Cacace described the case in stark terms. “There are no words that can adequately convey the horrors experienced by Concetta Morton at the hands of the defendant, who tortured her with deliberate cruelty for three months before suffocating her to death,” she said.
“Today, after years of sustained effort from this office, the New Rochelle Police Department, the Dunn family and the surviving victims of Ms. Tilford’s sexual abuse, the Westchester community can finally begin to heal from these traumas. Ms. Tilford will be spending the rest of her life in prison,” Cacace said.
The district attorney also credited investigators and prosecutors. “I want to commend the tireless, painstaking work of the New Rochelle police, who investigated this case so thoroughly, and the ingenuity of my office’s Hi-Tech unit, which unlocked critical pieces of evidence for use at trial,” she said.
“I hope that with this sentence, Ms. Morton may finally rest in peace, and that the Dunn family may find a small measure of comfort knowing she has finally achieved the justice in the afterlife that was denied to her during her brief time on Earth,” Cacace added.
The case was investigated by the New Rochelle Police Department and the District Attorney’s Office Hi-Tech Unit. The prosecution was led by Deputy Division Chief Lana Hochheiser and Senior Assistant District Attorney Courtney Johnson, with assistance from Alessia Vicari.
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