Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said a former South Amboy woman was sentenced today to serve 30 years in a New Jersey state prison for killing her five-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, whose partial remains were recovered in 1992 after he was reported missing from a carnival in 1991.
Despite her efforts to conceal one of the most notorious crimes in the history of Middlesex County by killing her son, dumping his remains in a swamp, falsely claiming he was abducted by strangers, and spearheading a desperate search for a child she knew was already dead, Michelle Lodzinski was sentenced to the minimum sentence permitted under the law.
Lodzinski, 49, was sentenced to the term in New Brunswick by Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves, who refused to grant a request by Middlesex County Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Christie Bevacqua to impose a life prison term.
The defendant has been in custody since she was arrested on a charge of murder in August 2014 after detectives, under the direction of Prosecutor Carey, re-opened the cold case and gathered testimony from witnesses who identified evidence – a blanket – that linked Lodzinski to the homicide.
Lodzinski, who showed no remorse for the death of her child, declined to address the court before the sentence was imposed.
Judge Nieves reduced the 30-year-term by 884 days she already has spent in custody since her arrest, allowing her to become eligible for parole after she serves another 27 years and five months in prison.
During an eight-week trial, Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Bevacqua and Assistant Prosecutor Scott LaMountain presented evidence and testimony showing Lodzinski killed the child sometime before she reported him missing from the carnival in Sayreville on May 21, 1991.
The child’s partial remains were recovered on April 23, 1992 from a remote section of Raritan Center, an industrial park in Edison.
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