In large measure because of an investigation by NJ Advance Media, convicted child molester Gregorio Martinez, once a fugitive, is back behind bars. … More Accused child predator, back in N.J., held without bail
Ten years later, no answers in the serial killings of four women. … More Getting away with murder: the Atlantic City prostitute killings 10 years later
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich assailed the “culture” of the Christie administration and the “venomous acts” directed against his community Friday after two of the governor’s allies were found guilty in the federal Bridgegate trial. … More Fort Lee mayor blasts ‘venomous acts’ in wake of Bridgegate verdict
Anthony Appolonia spent five years in prison for killing cats. Now living in Delaware, he’s allegedly adopting cats again. But where are they? (After this ran, the Delaware Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation.) … More He tortured and killed 19 cats. Now some fear he’s at it again
Our coverage of Gregorio Martinez, a convicted sex offender who had been on the run, kick-started a stalled investigation and helped lead to his arrest in Central America. … More A preacher’s flight from justice
By Sue Eptsein and Mark Mueller Ten votes guilty. Two not. That was the split Tuesday evening in the Middlesex County Courthouse as Michelle Lodzinski waited to learn if she would be convicted of murder in the death of her 5-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, a quarter century ago, according to a juror who was present. It … More ‘You just knew’ Lodzinski was guilty, juror says
The Rev. Manuel Gallo Espinoza was allowed to slip away after a teenage boy accused him of rape. An NJ Advance Media investigation found he later became a teacher in Maryland. Now police are hunting for him. … More Where’s Father Manuel? Police hunting priest accused of rape
A retired teacher accused of sexually abusing one of her teenage students in the 1990s — an allegation chronicled in a two-part series in The Star-Ledger last year — will not face criminal charges “at this time,” a prosecutor said Thursday, adding that the investigation will remain open, though inactive, indefinitely. … More No charges ‘at this time’ in teacher-student sex investigation
Facing the lowest point of his four decades in politics, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez sought to reframe the narrative in his federal corruption case Thursday, portraying himself as a victim of overzealous prosecutors who naively — or knowingly — built an indictment on a foundation of lies. … More Career at stake, Sen. Menendez paints himself as victim in corruption case
It was ink-black in the vast underground water tank. And biting cold. The only escape, a panel in the ceiling, loomed 5 feet above the water level, far too high to reach. Worse, there was no ladder. In that frigid subterranean cavern at the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, Geetha Angara — scientist, wife … More Death in the water tank
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