The murdered Queens building super whose body was found stuffed in garbage bags under the bed of a tenant he was trying to collect back rent from was beaten to death with a heavy pipe, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors on Thursday charged suspect Sandra Coto Navarro Portillo with murder and tampering with physical evidence in the death of super Jose Rene Portillo.  Queens Criminal Court Judge Vidya Pappachan ordered her held without bail during a late-night arraignment proceeding. If convicted, Navarro could be facing 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said. When police showed up at her door on Tuesday after friends had not heard from Portillo, Navarro tried to throw them off by claiming he had collected the $26,000 in back rent and left hours earlier, according to court papers. But surveillance cameras outside the building didn’t bear that out. They recorded Portillo entering the apartment on 70th Ave. near 137th St. in Kew Gardens Hills at about 8:40 a.m., but never recorded him leaving, prosecutors said. Then, while she was in custody when her boyfriend asked her where the pipe was, she told him “not to worry” in Spanish, according to a criminal complaint. “[My] fingerprints won’t be on it,” she said. The 55-year-old super’s body was found hidden under Navarro’s bed wrapped in clothing and two garbage bags, one covering his top half, the other covering his lower half. Sandra Coto Navarro in police custody at rhe NYPD’s 107th Precinct stationhouse in Queens on Thursday. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News) Cops also found a bloody mop in the bedroom and smelled bleach, leading them to believe that Navarro had tried to clean up after fatally striking Portillo in the back of the head with the pipe. According to the medical examiner’s office, Portillo’s death was a homicide, the result of blunt trauma to the head. Navarro had also cut Portillo in the neck and knee after he died as she tried to figure out how to dismember his body, prosecutors said. “This was a gruesome murder,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. “[Navarro] not only murdered the superintendent trying to collect rent, but attempted to dismember the lifeless victim, wrapped his body in black garbage bags and tried bleaching the area. “Now, a life has been lost and a family is in upheaval because the defendant allegedly chose to resolve a rent dispute with violence,” Katz added. “This is not the way a civilized society operates.” Flashing reporters a wry smile as she was led out of the 107th Precinct in Queens, Navarro was confronted by Portillo’s wife who called her a “bad b—h!” in Spanish. Police found the body of a 55-year-old man wrapped in garbage bags and stuffed beneath a bed inside this Queens apartment on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Colin Mixson / New York Daily News) “You killed my husband!” the heartbroken wife screamed. “Go to hell!” “Right now … we’re all in shock,” the super’s daughter told the Daily News Thursday. “It’s a lot of information for us to take in. And our minds are in different areas right now.” After not hearing from Portillo for several hours, his brother went to the management company, a police source said. He and a worker from the management company reviewed surveillance footage from outside the building which shows Portillo entering the apartment but never leaving. When cops arrived, Navarro answered the apartment door. A few moments her boyfriend returned home and pointed them to the bedroom. The boyfriend wasn’t immediately charged, police said. According to police sources, he was at work until about 15 minutes before the police arrived at the apartment Tuesday. Attempts to reach the building management company were not immediately successful Thursday. Neighbors in the complex said Portillo had worked there for almost a decade. Police found the body of a 55-year-old man wrapped in garbage bags and stuffed beneath a bed inside this Queens apartment on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Colin Mixson / New York Daily News) “If I had a problem he would come over,” said Rosemarie Sanks, 81, who has lived in the complex for 53 years. “He was a nice man. He wasn’t aggressive at all … It’s a horrible thing.” Neighbors said Navarro and the male resident of the apartment where Portillo was found were disruptive and known to drink excessively and act rowdy. “[Navarro] was drinking a lot but she seemed nice,” a 30-year-old neighbor told The News. “They were always fighting. He was always drunk. You could smell the alcohol on him.” Portillo had helped the tenants get the apartment, the neighbor said. “I’m in shock,” the tenant said. “I thought they were friends.” “For her to do something like that, I can’t believe it,” said the woman.