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Malmberg: 'I'm not a monster'
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/Malmberg-Im-not-a-monster"It was an accident," he told 24 Hour News 8. Jozlynn's mother, Consuela Martinez, 21, originally told police she checked on her daughter about 11 p.m. that night, though she since has said she may have been confused.
Malmberg admitted to police he put his knee on the little girl's chest and held her down until she stopped breathing, a Grand Rapids police detective said in court. Next, he told police, he placed Jozlynn in a garbage bag, then disposed of her body in a commercial Dumpster.
WZZM 13's Sarah Sell is at the landfill. Police tell her that this search is the last chance, they believe, to find Jozlynn's body. They have brought in an anthropologist to help in the search.
Police said this afternoon that some of the garbage trucks that they had previously thought unloaded at the waste to energy plant in Grand Rapids had actually dropped off at the landfill in Byron Township. A team is currently searching a specific area in the landfill.
Police will take the media into the landfill as they look for the little girl.
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=119240
Malmberg: 'I'm not a monster'
Jozlynn's death an accident, he said
Updated: Saturday, 06 Mar 2010, 9:24 AM EST
Published : Saturday, 06 Mar 2010, 9:24 AM EST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - The man accused of kneeling on 2-year-old Jozlynn Martinez's chest until she died says he is not a "monster" and that the death was an accident.
"I loved her," Jeffrey Malmberg told 24 Hour News 8 in a jailhouse interview on Saturday. "She was my princess." He said he considered himself her father.
Malmberg, 40, was charged Thursday with second-degree murder, tampering with evidence for tossing Jozlynn's body in a Dumpster and larceny for stealing $2,800 from the girl's mother.
Unshaven and in a jail-green uniform, he spoke to 24 Hour News 8 through thick glass in a visiting room at the Kent County Jail, where he's held on a $1 million bond.
His first question: "Did they find her body?"
Malmberg said he'd heard rumors -- unfounded -- that police had recovered Jozlynn's body.
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/grand_rapids/Malmberg-Im-not-a-monster
{BBM}I thought that they had isolated the garbage from where he said he dumped her? How would they have been able to isolate that trash, if that truck dumped somewhere else? I hope that was just a misunderstanding.
It has been so long since Jozlynn disappeared...with other trucks dumping at this site. I'm hoping that they can find her. But I'm not very optimistic.![]()
KENT COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Members of the Grand Rapids Police Department and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations have begun searching the South Kent Landfill for the body of Jozlynn Martinez.