Trial reveals world of butt-injection "pumping parties"

PHILADELPHIA - An exotic dancer's death at an airport hotel has led Philadelphia police to investigate the strange underworld of "pumping parties" and illegal cosmetic surgery.

An aspiring rapper known as "the Black Madam" is accused of killing the 20-year-old dancer from London during a procedure that involved injecting the woman's buttocks with silicone and Krazy Glue.

Padge Victoria Windslowe's third-degree murder trial is expected to start Thursday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court.

Police say that Windslowe fled the hotel room after Claudia Aderotimi started having trouble breathing during "a touch-up" to celebrate her birthday in 2011.

A coroner has testified that the industrial-grade silicone spread to her lungs and brain and caused a pulmonary embolism.

The defense is expected to challenge the medical evidence. Windslowe also is charged with practicing medicine without a license.

CBS Philadelphia reported Wednesday that a key witness for the prosecution has refused to testify, but the judge has ruled the prosecution can present her testimony from an earlier hearing.

The prosecution says Theresa Gyamfi is a necessary witness. Gyamfi testified at an earlier hearing that she traveled with her friend, victim Claudia Aderotimi, from London to Philadelphia for buttocks enhancement. She said they laid side by side during the procedure and her friend started suffering almost immediately and was dead within hours.