The boyfriend of a Bronx woman who was stabbed to death in a park on Wednesday night has been charged with her murder after detectives determined his claims that robbers had killed her were a hoax.

Franklin Batallas, 44, of Westchester Avenue, stands accused of murdering his lover — Anthonella Contreras Linarez, 30 — in an attack that occurred near the City Island Circle, at Park Drive and City Island Road, in Pelham Bay Park at about 8:10 p.m. on Sept. 17.

Batallas initially told police that two unidentified men on mopeds had attempted to rob and then brutally stabbed Linarez as she sat in their car alone. The suspect claimed that he had stopped his vehicle and gone behind a bush to relieve himself when the incident occurred.

The suspect further claimed that the robbers also slashed hi

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