GUILTY NY - Nicole Tessa, 31, Patchogue, 17 Dec 2010

[Texas Mist]

Originally published: December 25, 2010 7:47 AM
By MATTHEW CHAYES matthew.chayes@newsday.com

An autopsy has revealed a preliminary cause of death for a Patchogue woman whose body was found in the woods, police said Friday, but they would not detail what pathologists found except to say they're awaiting toxicology test results.

Nicole Tessa, 31, was reported missing from her home after what her husband said was a fight between the newlyweds. Police have said her death was the result of a homicide.

It was not immediately clear Friday when toxicology results would be available.

more here

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/preliminary-autopsy-results-in-patchogue-case-1.2568460

 

[alwayslooking]

I am looking for any updates, so far this is all I have found! I will check FB and Myspace!

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/homicide-victim-s-husband-in-family-court-1.2565139

 

[alwayslooking]

Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/399505228

 

[alwayslooking]

This says fight over Oxycotton?

http://www.optimum.net/Video?pid=olW26dzygUNFRlO_qN9Ai50gdG94GOcP&category=News/Local/News12

 

[lucymoosey]

Have there been any updates on this case?
I live on Long Island, and haven't heard anything on our local news.....
-LM

 

[voxrock2000]

I have contacted the writers of several news articles looking for any update on this. I got no responses at all. As far as i can tell there were no arrests in the case and the last article was 12/24/10 with preliminary autopsy results and a homicide determination. What gives?

 

[Momoffourboys]

Husband arrested!

http://pix11.com/2016/03/04/man-arrested-six-years-after-wife-was-murdered-in-patchogue/

PATCHOGUE, Long Island — A Long Island man was arrested Friday, six years after his wife was found murdered in Patchogue.

Suffolk County Police today arrested Joseph T. Jones, 33, of Centereach, for the murder of his wife Nicole Tessa in 2010.

Jones is charged with murder and scheduled to be arraigned on March 7.

Police say the woman’s body was found at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, in a wooded area near the intersection of Prince Street and Jefferson Avenue in North Patchogue.

 

[Elainera]

Wow. They took their time to build their case I guess.

 

[Elainera]

A former Patchogue man strangled and beat his wife to death and buried her in a shallow grave more than five years ago after she confronted him about taking her oxycodone pills and selling them, a Suffolk prosecutor said on March 7, 2016 in Riverhead.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/...t-and-buried-wife-in-shallow-grave-1.11546767

“In the one-year period 2010, Miss Tessa had been prescribed nearly 5,000 oxycodone pills,” Biancavilla said. “The argument was over the fact that he had stolen the pills from her and was selling them.”

Prosecutors claimed witnesses heard a heated argument on the driveway, and watched as Tessa walked toward the woods — followed by her husband. She was never again seen alive.

Jones is charged with second-degree murder.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/03/07/joseph-jones-arraignment-nicole-tessa/

 

[Dawn316]

Tessa had been prescribed nearly 5,000 oxycodone pills.....what the heck??!!!!!

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Centereach man who killed wife pleads guilty just before trial

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/centereach-man-who-killed-wife-pleads-guilty-just-before-trial-1.13419195

As dozens of potential jurors waited outside a Riverhead courtroom door, a Centereach property manager admitted Monday that he strangled his wife and bashed her in the head.

Joseph Jones, 34, interrupted jury selection to plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of Nicole Tessa, 31. Jones had been charged with second-degree murder and faced a maximum of 25 years to life in prison, but under the terms of the plea deal, Suffolk County Court Judge John Toomey Jr. agreed to sentence Jones to 18 1⁄2 years in prison on May 11.

After defense attorney George Duncan of Central Islip, negotiated the deal with Assistant District Attorney Peter Timmons, Duncan explained it to his client in court. Jones sighed heavily and then agreed to take the plea offer.

During questioning by Timmons, Jones said he and Tessa had been married for a few months and were living in North Patchogue on Dec. 17, 2010. After 11 p.m., Jones said he and his wife argued outside their home. Timmons did not ask what the argument was about.

Jones began to cry, saying they continued arguing as they walked down the street and began to fight physically. He ended up strangling her and hitting her in the head with something, he said.

“What was it? A rock?” Timmons asked.

“I don’t remember,” Jones said, sniffling.

Shortly afterward, he said he dragged her body into the woods and buried her in a shallow grave.

Prosecutors said Tessa’s pills were prescribed by Dr. Michael Randall of Setauket, who was charged in 2014 with prescribing painkillers “without a medical purpose.”

Randall pleaded guilty in federal court and was sentenced last year to 32 months in prison.

 

[Elainera]

What a tragedy. Addiction to pain killers, greed for money, and one is dead, the other in prison.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Centereach man sentenced for strangling wife, hiding body

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/centereach-man-sent-to-prison-for-strangling-wife-hiding-body-1.13604036

A Centereach property manager treated his wife “like an animal” when he strangled her and buried her in the woods more than six years ago, the woman’s father said in court Wednesday.

Jack Tessa addressed Joseph Jones, 34, shortly before Suffolk County Court Judge John Toomey Jr. sentenced Jones to 18 1⁄2 years in prison for killing Nicole Tessa, 31, on Dec. 17, 2010.

"I don’t understand why you did this,” Tessa said. “She was the mother of your only son. She loved you, for some reason.”

Nicole Tessa’s younger sister, Danielle Cotty of Hauppauge, told Toomey she didn’t believe the punishment was tough enough. She wondered how Jones could lie about what he did for so many years.

Outside court, Jack Tessa said the family’s pain has been compounded by the fact that Nicole’s twin sister, Jennifer Tessa Travis, died in March.

“She never got her life together,” the women’s father said. “This [Nicole’s killing] had tortured her.”