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

[ScarlettScarpetta]

I wonder what new evidence LE has to finally convict this woman?

They didn't convict her yet..

I am wondering what they have also. I am waiting to see the evidence and the trial.

 

[Lovejac]

Were they ever able to determine cause of death?

What a handsome little boy.

 

[Swirlz]

When he 1st went missing my mom thought it was just horrible that people were pointing the finger at his mother without proof. Now I'm NOT going to call my mother and say I-told-you-so.

 

[MadamReporter]

Were they ever able to determine cause of death?

What a handsome little boy.

No cause of death was ever determined.

Coincidentally, last year his unredacted death certificate became available for the first time following a long legal battle. The media had filed suit insisting that they had a right to see it and citing NJ's Right-to-Know statute. There were issues and legislation about privacy when it comes to how someone died (that's why obits never say what someone actually died of.) After years and years of litigation they finally got to see the manner of death on the death certificate --and I have to double check this -- but I think it was just listed as "homicide."

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/ne...hy-wiltseys-father-still-mourns-son/13892221/

George Wiltsey received a call about 3 a.m. Thursday from a friend with welcome news — Michelle Lodzinski, the mother of his son, Timothy, had been arrested and charged with the 5-year-old boy's death more than 20 years ago...

Wiltsey, 48, said he and Michelle Lodzinski, 47, had known each other since she was 14. "We were together for seven years," he said. They met when Lodzinski would come out to Iowa each summer to visit a half-brother, who still lives four houses from Wiltsey. He has not spoken to his neighbor about the arrest.

"It's a sore spot for him as it is for me," he said.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/stat...cle_41d123c3-e37d-5e69-9feb-d02fe7241d0f.html

A judge has denied a request to release a woman arrested in the death of her 5-year-old son more than two decades ago.

Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger made the ruling behind closed doors this week in the case of 47-year-old Michelle Lodzinski of Port St. Lucie, who is accused in the 1991 killing of Timothy Wiltsey, the son she said went missing at a New Jersey carnival.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/ne...lle-lodzinski-return-nj-within-week/15072199/

Lodzinski, 46, waived extradition when she appeared in court Thursday in Martin County, Fla. Her attorney, Robert Watson, said Lodzinski expects to be transferred to New Jersey in about a week and is looking forward to being able to let the facts speak...

The one-page indictment issued by a grand jury in Middlesex County doesn’t mention the cause of death or specify what evidence led authorities to charge Lodzinski. The grand jury said she “did purposely or knowingly kill” Timothy or did “purposely or knowingly inflict serious bodily injury” resulting in his death.

Watson said investigators took a hair sample from her about a year ago, but she was surprised by her arrest.

 

[mikkismom]

MOM ARRESTED FOR NEW JERSEY SON'S 1991 DEATH DUE IN COURT

http://7online.com/news/mom-arrested-for-new-jersey-sons-1991-death-due-in-court/310512/

 

[MadamReporter]

Prosecutors lay out their new evidence. I was underwhelmed, to say the least. Hopefully this is some but not all they have...

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2014/09/lodzinski_returns_to_nj_to_face_charge_she_murdered_her_young_son.html#incart_hbx#incart_best-of

 

[PastTense]

During a five-minute conference Friday before Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz sitting here, Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Surman and Lodzinski’s attorney, Gerald Krovatin, said progress is being made with the case.

Surman, who is handling the case with Assistant Prosecutor Scott LaMountain, said he had received a discovery request from Krovatin.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...view-audio-video-witness-statements/19044375/

 

[Queen Bee]

Timothy Wiltsey's mom wants fall trial on charges she murdered her 5-year-old in 1991

(snip)
Nieves set the next court date as June 2, so that Krovatin had the time he needed to review all of the evidence and then could decide which pre-trial motions he wants to file.

Lodzinski is accused of murdering Wiltsey, who was 5 years old in 1991. Lodzinski told investigators that the boy went missing from a Memorial Day carnival in Sayreville. The boy's remains were found in Raritan Center in Edison 11 months later.

(snip)
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s...ltseys_mom_wants_fall_trial_on_charges_s.html

Michelle Lodzinski, accused of murdering her son 23 years ago, appears in Superior Court, New Brunswick, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014.

 

[Queen Bee]

Timothy Wiltsey, a 5-year-old New Jersey boy who was killed in 1991. His mother was charged Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.




:rose: timmy.........gone too soon
:rose: strength to those that love him

 

[Queen Bee]

Timothy Wiltsey's mom wants fall trial on charges she murdered her 5-year-old in 1991

(snip)
Nieves set the next court date as June 2, so that Krovatin had the time he needed to review all of the evidence and then could decide which pre-trial motions he wants to file.

Lodzinski is accused of murdering Wiltsey, who was 5 years old in 1991. Lodzinski told investigators that the boy went missing from a Memorial Day carnival in Sayreville. The boy's remains were found in Raritan Center in Edison 11 months later.

(snip)
http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s...ltseys_mom_wants_fall_trial_on_charges_s.html

Michelle Lodzinski, accused of murdering her son 23 years ago, appears in Superior Court, New Brunswick, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014.

:bump:

 

[Queen Bee]

Timothy Wiltsey, a 5-year-old New Jersey boy who was killed in 1991. His mother was charged Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.




:rose: timmy.........gone too soon
:rose: strength to those that love him

:bump:

 

[Queen Bee]

looking back on this thread there was nothing posted from november until may, so here are some articles to catch us up....

Michelle Lodzinski back in court for a status conference Jan 15
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/pict...ck-in-court-for-a-status-conference/21815233/

Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz retires jan 16
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...court-judge-bradley-ferencz-retires/21881423/

New judge in Michelle Lodzinski murder case jan 16
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...2015/01/15/new-judge-lodzinski-case/21815887/

Accused Wiltsey killer Lodzinski may face fall trial mar 26
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...-almost-years-ago-may-go-trial-fall/70504390/

 

[Queen Bee]

Prosecutor: 30 witnesses planned for Lodzinski trial

NEW BRUNSWICK – A trial this fall remains on schedule for Michelle Lodzinski, the former South Amboy woman accused of killing her 5-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, 23 years ago.

Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves, sitting here, is looking to begin jury selection on Oct. 27.

(snip)
Nieves estimated the trial could take three to four weeks.

(snip)
The next status conference is scheduled for June 25.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/stor...06/02/michelle-lodzinski-fall-trial/28367519/

 

[Queen Bee]

Woman accused of killing her 5-year-old son in 1991 will ask court to dismiss charges

Michelle Lodzinski's attorney said in court Tuesday afternoon he plans to ask a judge to dismiss the indictment that charges her with murdering her 5-year-old son in 1991.

Gerald Krovatin told Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves in New Brunswick he intends to file a motion to suppress the indictment that charges Lodzinski killed Timothy Wiltsey.

Krovatin said he also plans to argue that her constitutional rights were violated due to the length of time that it took the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office to bring the indictment and that there was insufficient probable cause to charge her with her son's murder.
-------------more at link

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/06/post_58.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

Calling the state's case a patchwork of speculation and flimsy circumstantial evidence, a lawyer for Michelle Lodzinski will ask a judge today to throw out the indictment charging the former New Jersey woman with the 1991 murder of her 5-year-old son.

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/09/inside_the_case_against_mother_charged_in_timothy.html

 

[OkieGranny]

From September:

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/2015/09...s_about_timothy_wil.html#incart_article_small

A trove of FBI documents obtained by the brother of Michelle Lodzinski — charged in the 1991 murder of her 5-year-old son — reveals startling new details into the decades-long investigation that led to her arrest last year, painting the former South Amboy woman as a sometimes detached mother whose erratic behavior included faking her own kidnapping in order to avoid an appearance before a grand jury considering evidence in the case.

Michael Lodzinski, who has long stood by his sister as she proclaimed her innocence, provided NJ Advance Media with a more than 200-page Federal Bureau of Investigation redacted report he obtained years ago through a public records request, saying he believed the public had a right to know what was in the FBI files and the timing was right.

From last week:

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s..._allow_testimony_about_fbi_kidnapping_ho.html

A judge on Wednesday said he would not permit at trial a statement Michelle Lodzinski gave to the FBI in the wake of a kidnapping hoax that represented a bizarre turn in the investigation into her son's death.

Lodzinski said that she was forcibly taken by FBI agents to Detroit in 1994, three years after the disappearance of her 5-year-old son, Timmy Wiltsey. But she later admitted that it was a hoax, and was sentenced to three years of probation...

In a victory for prosecutors, Nieves also dismissed Lodzinski's efforts to have the case thrown out because of due process violations, and will also permit several statements at trial. Some of those statements, and the fact that they contradict other ones Lodzinski gave, are crucial to the state's case as they attempt to prove that she killed her son, then lied to cover it up.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Mom's Trial for '91 Killing Highlights Cold Case Challenges

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/moms-trial-91-killing-highlights-cold-case-challenges-36950637

An anonymous tip that went nowhere and a 25-year-old blanket could be responsible for solving one of New Jersey's most enduring murder mysteries — was 5-year-old Timothy Wiltsey killed by his own mother?

Jury selection is scheduled this week for the murder trial of Michelle Lodzinski, whom authorities have portrayed as a struggling single mom who blamed her son for a pair of failed romantic relationships. A conviction would provide a measure of vindication for generations of investigators who never bought Lodzinski's claim that Timothy was abducted from a carnival in May 1991.

In an age when countless true-crime shows depict suspects routinely tripped up by DNA extracted from a microscopic fiber or bead of sweat, the case against Lodzinski — with no DNA evidence and no eyewitnesses — will focus attention on the challenges inherent in prosecuting and gaining convictions for long-ago crimes.