Police probe whether NYC mom found beaten, strangled next to bloody iron in SoHo hotel was sex worker: sources

Police are investigating whether a Queens mom found beaten and strangled next to a bloody iron in a SoHo hotel last week may have been a sex worker, The Post has learned.

The victim — 38-year-old Denisse Oleas-Arancibia — stayed for several nights each month at the SoHo 54 Hotel in Lower Manhattan going back about a year, law enforcement sources said.

Oleas-Arancibia is also believed to have been working for a man in Manhattan who she communicated with on WhatsApp, according to the sources.

Police have gathered shreds of evidence — including a security camera video of a man leaving the building after her death and a restaurant receipt left in the room — that they think could lead them to the killer, sources said.

And the crime scene showed indications that there might have been a dispute in the room, they added.

But cops haven’t named a suspect yet.