The 2023 Times profile called Hernandez “the unofficial companion and caregiver to the retirees, widows and widowers” who occupied more than half of the apartments in the building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

“If it wasn’t for her, I’d be in the gutter,” then-98-year-old resident Antonio Ruas told the Times.

The district attorney’s office would not say whether Ruas was the person Hernandez is accused of stealing from.

According to the indictment, the victim agreed to give Hernandez access to her bank account and credit cards as he became increasingly vulnerable.

The victim was injured in a fall in the summer of 2023 and was not expected to recover, so Hernandez accompanied him on a trip to visit his family, prosecutors said.

She returned to New York City with the man’s checkbook, debit and credit cards, prosecutors said.