GUILTY FL - AnnaMarie Cruz Randazzo, 17, Cape Coral, 21 July 2005

[petra]

Student's killing results in two trials
Man, teen charged in Annamarie Randazzo case

By Joan D. LaGuardia
Originally posted on December 13News-_ Jeremy Lee Chapman, 23, and Joshua Henninger, 17, will undergo separate trials when State Attorney Stephen Russell prosecutes them for murder in the death of Annamarie Cruz Randazzo of Cape Coral.

The 17-year-old Mariner High School student disappeared July 22 after seeing a movie with friends. Her body was found two weeks later in Lehigh Acres.

The state has accused the men of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and beating her to death.

Russell is seeking the death penalty for Chapman, who also is accused of killing his former landlord, John Hardin, 66, of Cape Coral, on July 29.

Henninger's attorney, Kenneth Garber, filed the motion to sever the trials.

On Monday, Circuit Judge Thomas Reese agreed to it.

Garber did not respond to a request for comment.

David A. Brener, one of the attorneys representing Chapman, said separate prosecutions are routine when statements from defendants are used to prosecute each other.

"All sides agreed that we would still coordinate the depositions so as not to make the witnesses appear twice," Brener said.

No trial dates are set.****************SNIP****************

http://www.southwestfloridaonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051213/NEWS0101/512130397/1075

 

[hoppyfrog]

http://www.missingchildreninternational.org/classifieds.php?a=22&b=28

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) -- The body of a missing 17-year-old honor student was
found in a wooded area Saturday by campers and two people confessed to her
murder, police said.

 

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From Missing Children International:

Body of missing Cape Coral honor student found by campers
CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) -- The body of a missing 17-year-old honor student was
found in a wooded area Saturday by campers and two people confessed to her
murder, police said.



Annamarie Cruz Randazzo was last seen July 21 when she dropped off two
friends after watching a movie at a Cape Coral theater. Her 1990 Ford Mustang
was found torched the next day.



Her body was put in an abandoned refrigerator and set on fire, police said.


Detectives were waiting for a medical examiner's report to learn how she was
killed, said Cape Coral police spokesman Angelo Bitsis.



Joshua Henninger, 16, of Cape Coral, and Jeremy Chapman, 23, were each
charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping. Additional charges were
pending.



Detectives said both suspects confessed.



Police said Henninger was an acquaintance of the girl and she went to his
house after dropping off her friends. There was an altercation and one of the
suspects struck Randazzo, police said.



The pair tied Randazzo up, put her in her car and drove to an unknown
location, where she was killed, police said.



Then the suspects drove her to a wooded area in Lehigh Acres where her body
was set ablaze, police said. They drove her car to a vacant field and also set
it on fire, police said.



Henninger and Chapman were being booked late Saturday at the Cape Coral jail,
Bitsis said. He didn't know whether either had an attorney. Police also didn't
know Chapman's hometown.



Annamarie was a straight-A student and rising senior at Mariner High School,
her family said.​

Looks like the drug story was fabricated by Anna Marie's alleged murderers. I thought I'd post this to clear the poor girl's name.


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[OkieGranny]

From June 2007:

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/10686482/plea-deal-accepted-in-annamarie-randazzos-murder

In a Lee County courtroom, Jeremy Chapman pleaded guilty to the murders of AnnaMarie Randazzo and John Hardin, in exchange for two consecutive life sentences.

Jeremy Chapman admitted to killing Annamarie Randazzo in 2005 with his friend Joshua Henninger, who will go to trial in September. Randazzo's burned body was found in a refrigerator in Lehigh Acres several weeks after she disappeared.

Chapman is also accused of killing his 66-year-old roommate, John Hardin, with a crowbar. His body was found in the garage of the home the two men shared. The murder took place around the same time Randazzo disappeared.

From September 2007:

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/local-news/jury_finds_henninger_guilty_firstdegree_murder_oth

After less than three and a half hours of delibration Friday, the four-man eight-woman jury had reached a decision: Henninger, 19, was guilty of kidnapping, sexual battery with great force, arson and first-degree murder in the July 2005 bludgeoning death of Annamarie Randazzo...

The only sentence in the state of Florida for a first-degree murder conviction is life in prison without parole.