About: Death of Timothy Wiltsey

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Timothy William "Timmy" Wiltsey (August 6, 1985 – remains recovered April 23, 1992) was a 5-year-old boy from South Amboy, New Jersey, United States, whose mother, Michelle Lodzinski, told police that he went missing from a carnival in nearby Sayreville on May 25, 1991. Police searches of the park where the carnival had been held failed to locate Wiltsey. Almost 11 months later, his remains were discovered across the Raritan River in the marshlands of nearby Edison, near an office park where Lodzinski had once worked.

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  • Timothy William "Timmy" Wiltsey (August 6, 1985 – remains recovered April 23, 1992) was a 5-year-old boy from South Amboy, New Jersey, United States, whose mother, Michelle Lodzinski, told police that he went missing from a carnival in nearby Sayreville on May 25, 1991. Police searches of the park where the carnival had been held failed to locate Wiltsey. Almost 11 months later, his remains were discovered across the Raritan River in the marshlands of nearby Edison, near an office park where Lodzinski had once worked. Due to changes in her account of how her son disappeared within a month of his disappearance, and her unemotional demeanor on the few occasions she spoke publicly about the case, she began to be seen as a suspect. That perception intensified later in the decade when she was convicted of first staging her own kidnapping, and then again several years later of stealing a laptop from a former employer. Prosecutors did not bring charges against her until the 2010s, by which time she had remarried, had two more children, and moved to Florida, where she was arrested in 2014. Wiltsey's remains were so decomposed when discovered that the cause of death could not be determined, and it was unclear when anyone besides Lodzinski had last seen him, making it difficult to connect her to any foul play or establish when and how it had taken place. Middlesex County prosecutors believed that a blanket found near the body was one that babysitters had seen in her house while the boy was alive. In 2016, after a trial that saw the jury foreman dismissed for doing independent research, she was convicted and sentenced to 30 years without parole. The conviction was sustained on appeal. In 2021, the New Jersey Supreme Court heard Lodzinski's case. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner recused himself, and the remaining judges deadlocked, leaving her most recent appeal, which had upheld her conviction, standing. The Court was persuaded to invoke a rarely-used rule allowing a rehearing with another judge temporarily designated a justice to hear the case so that a result is reached. At the end of the year, a narrow majority vacated her conviction because the evidence was insufficient for a reasonable jury to convict her. (en)
  • Тимоти Уилтси (англ. Timothy Wiltsey, 6 августа 1985 — 25 мая 1991) — 5-летний ребёнок, проживавший в городе Сейервилл, штат Нью-Джерси (Sayreville, NJ). (ru)
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  • Michelle Lodzinski (en)
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  • From 1991 missing-child flyer (en)
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  • Murder (en)
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  • A-50-19 (en)
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  • LaVecchia, Pierre-Louis, Fuentes (en)
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  • Vacated on appeal, 2021 (en)
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  • 1991-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • 2021-12-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Albin (en)
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  • Patterson, Fernandez-Vina, Solomon (en)
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  • State of New Jersey v. Michelle Lodzinski (en)
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  • no (en)
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  • Jaynee LaVecchia, Barry Albin, Anne Patterson, Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina, Lee Solomon, Fabiana Pierre-Louis, José Fuentes (en)
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  • Murder (en)
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  • Reasonable jury (en)
  • State of mind (en)
  • Sufficiency of evidence (en)
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  • State v. Lodzinski (en)
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  • Conviction for first-degree murder must be vacated as unreasonable where state presented no evidence for defendant's state of mind, leaving jury to speculate, even granting other inferences in state's favor. Judgement notwithstanding the verdict granted and conviction vacated (en)
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  • Conviction upheld, 467 N.J. Super. 447 ; affirmed 246 N.J. 331 ; petition for rehearing granted, 248 N.J. 451 (en)
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  • Death of Timothy Wiltsey (en)
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  • Тимоти Уилтси (англ. Timothy Wiltsey, 6 августа 1985 — 25 мая 1991) — 5-летний ребёнок, проживавший в городе Сейервилл, штат Нью-Джерси (Sayreville, NJ). (ru)
  • Timothy William "Timmy" Wiltsey (August 6, 1985 – remains recovered April 23, 1992) was a 5-year-old boy from South Amboy, New Jersey, United States, whose mother, Michelle Lodzinski, told police that he went missing from a carnival in nearby Sayreville on May 25, 1991. Police searches of the park where the carnival had been held failed to locate Wiltsey. Almost 11 months later, his remains were discovered across the Raritan River in the marshlands of nearby Edison, near an office park where Lodzinski had once worked. (en)
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  • Death of Timothy Wiltsey (en)
  • Уилтси, Тимоти (ru)
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