CONVICTION OVERTURNED NJ - Timothy Wiltsey, 5, murdered, Sayreville, 25 May 1991 *Released 2021*

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Spencer Kent ‏@spencermkent 2m
Michelle #Lodzinski sentenced to 30 yrs; Judge Nieves: "I anticipate you will be old and gray if this verdict stands." @njdotcom

Spencer Kent ‏@spencermkent 7m
Judge Nieves to Michelle #Lodzinski: "You lied, you lied, you lied again." @njdotcom

Spencer Kent ‏@spencermkent 22m
"She brought him into this world ... and she took him out when he was no longer needed." -- MCAP Christine Bevacqua #Lodzinski @njdotcom

Spencer Kent ‏@spencermkent 23m
"He was vulnerable to her, which made it easy for her to kill him." -- MCAP Christine Bevacqua @ Michelle #Lodzinski sentencing @njdotcom

Spencer Kent ‏@spencermkent 24m
MCAP Christine Bevacqua, rep. state, says #Lodzinski "got away with murder for 25 yrs" — 5x longer than Timmy was alive @njdotcom

Spencer Kent ‏@spencermkent 38m
@ #Lodzinski sentencing, state submits: "the only appropriate sentence is life imprisonment." @njdotcom @starledger

Lodzinski sentenced to prison in decades-old murder of 5-year-old son
 
“A New Jersey woman who was convicted in 2016 of murdering her five-year-old son in 1991 has now sued Middlesex county and its Sheriff for injuries she sustained at trial.

Michelle Lodzinski, 50, filed a lawsuit in state court on Friday claiming county officials breached their duty of caring for her by escorting her too quickly while she was restrained, causing her to fall, and then denying her adequate medical care while she remained in custody after the February 2016 incident, according to Law360.

The personal injury lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and costs for the woman who was found guilty of killing her son, Timothy Wiltsey, in May of 2016, 25 years after he vanished.

She is currently just over a year into serving her 30-year sentence for killing the boy.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...urder-son-1991-sues-county.html#ixzz57oB8yHJf

This will make a lot of people angry.
 
Going by what is in the FBI file I am somewhat surprised that they got a conviction. I am happy they did because I believe she is guilty. But if that was all of there evidence then I am not sure I could have reached the “beyond a reasonable doubt” conclusion.
 
I have a feeling this will be a successful appeal. There is such scant evidence she killed him. Although I do believe there is sufficient evidence she dumped the body (because of the blanket) but otherwise, this could have been an accident or the result of neglect. If there is a new trial, hopefully they actually upload all of it instead of teasing us with 3-minute snippets.
 
The state Appellate Division has ruled Michelle Lodzinski will not get a new trial for the case involving the disappearance and death of her 5-year-old son Timothy Wiltsey who she claimed disappeared from a Sayreville carnival in 1991.

Instead, the court ruled Lodzinski's conviction for the murder of her son will stand.

Michelle Lodzinski's conviction of murdering son in 1991 upheld
 
NJ Supreme Court to hear Michelle Lodzinski's murder appeal on Tuesday

The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday whether there was sufficient evidence presented during a three-month trial to convict Michelle Lodzinski in the 1991 murder of her 5-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey.

The court is scheduled to hear arguments at 10 a.m. Tuesday about the evidence presented by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office in the trial and whether it was proper to replace a juror who conducted outside research against the judge's order.

The state's highest court agreed to hear the Lodzinski appeal just months after the Appellate Division ruled the former South Amboy woman should not get a new trial on the murder charge.
 
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Timothy Wiltsey, seen here in a school photo, was reported missing by his mother, Michelle Lodzinski, who was only charged in his death decades later. (Star-Ledger file photo)

The mom who (almost) got away with murder, 1991

In 1991, South Amboy single mother Michelle Lodzinski claimed her 5-year-old son Timothy Wiltsey had disappeared during a trip to a Sayreville carnival. Nearly a year later, his skeletal remains were found in a marshy area in Edison near where she used to work. Though she changed her initial story a couple of times, she was not charged due to a lack of forensic evidence.

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Michelle Lodzinksi at the Middlesex County Courthouse during her 2016 trial in the murder of her son Timothy in 1991.(Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media)

The cold case was reopened in 2011, and Lodzinksi's niece, who also babysat Timothy, identified the blue and white blanket found with his remains as the boy's. In 2014, Lodzinksi, who had moved to Florida and had two more children, was charged in Timothy's murder, and after a high-profile trial in 2016, she was convicted of first-degree murder. In 2019, the 49-year-old was sentenced to 30 years in prison with no possibility of parole...

LINK:

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I was surprised back in 2018 that they found her guilty. That being said, I think she is guilty.
 
The problem is that a lot of jurors convict or acquit based on their "gut feeling" rather than careful consideration of the evidence. This woman may well be guilty, the jury might well believe she probably is, but the thing is that the state failed to prove it. The jury has to do their job, and do it properly, and apparently in this case they did not. They reached a finding that was not supported by the evidence.

If, as a juror, the best thing you can say about a case is "who else could have done it?" then you need to acquit even if you have to hold your nose metaphorically while doing so. It might suck for you personally to do that, but that is part of being a juror and is necessary for the jury system to work.
 
NBC’s Dateline will feature the case that led detectives on a decades-long investigation after Michelle Lodzinski reported her five-year old son, Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey, missing from a carnival in Sayreville in 1991.

The two-hour segment, “The Blue Blanket Mystery,” will air 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on April 29 with exclusive television interviews with insiders close to the case including former New Jersey Detective Keith Hackett, Timmy’s cousin Jennifer Blair-Dilcher, and Michelle Lodzinski’s sister Linda Hisley.

More at NBC's Dateline to feature Michelle Lodzinski case - centraljersey.com
 
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