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Suspect captured in 27 year old jogger Vanessa Marcotte's murder
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:38 am
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:38 am
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A 31-year-old Worcester man has been arrested in the murder of a Massachusetts jogger who was killed while she went for a run near her mother’s house last year.
Angelo Colon-Ortiz was arrested Friday night and held on a murder charge in the killing of Vanessa Marcotte, a 27-year-old Google employee who was found dead on August 7, 2016, in Princeton, Massachusetts, police and the local district attorney announced.
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Vanessa Marcotte was found dead about 8:20 p.m. in a remote “heavily wooded area” about a half-mile from her mother’s home on August 7, 2016, WBZ-TV reports. Her body was found by a Massachusetts State Police K9.
Marcotte was found nude, and had burns to her head, hands and feet, WCVB-TV’s Juli McDonald reports, citing police sources close to the investigation.
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The suspect, Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, of Worcester, was arrested Friday night, the Worcester County District Attorney said at a press conference. He was taken into custody without incident.
He is being held at the Massachusetts State Police barracks in Millbury on $1 million bail, according DA Joseph Early.
Colon-Ortiz will be arraigned Tuesday at Leominster District Court on Tuesday. He is facing charges so far of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and assault with intent to rape, Early said. Murder charges have not yet been filed.
Early said the investigation is ongoing and they anticipate there will be a murder charge. The charges filed against Colon-Ortiz, were “the charges we determined were the best to go forward at the time.”
He does not have a criminal record that authorities know of at this time, Early said. Authorities said they do not know for sure that he is a U.S. citizen.
“We don’t know that, at this point,” Early said when asked if Colon-Ortiz is a U.S. citizen. “The information we have, I can’t make a statement in regards to that at this point.”
Public records indicate Colon-Ortiz is from Puerto Rico, which would make him an American citizen.
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Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:40 am to ChewyDante
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Colon-Ortiz will be arraigned Tuesday at Leominster District Court on Tuesday. He is facing charges so far of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and assault with intent to rape, Early said. Murder charges have not yet been filed.
Is this normal?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:41 am to ChewyDante
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Angelo Colon-Ortiz
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:43 am to ChewyDante
What is this baws immigration status?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:43 am to upgrayedd
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Is this normal?
That perplexed me as well. Clearly she's been murdered and he's been arrested for it but charged with the lesser offenses. Not sure the legal thinking behind that but there must be some reasoning. Paging all OT DA's.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:43 am to ChewyDante
Was this the instagram account holder... i mean "model"?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:44 am to Cosmo
I've read a few different stories and no one seems to comment. I'm guessing he's a citizen, but I'm also very skeptical.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:44 am to Cosmo
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What is this baws immigration status?
If he is Puerto Rican, he's American.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:44 am to upgrayedd
was he an illegal?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:44 am to ChewyDante
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Public records indicate Colon-Ortiz is from Puerto Rico
You know the problem with Puerto Rico? It's full of Puerto Ricans.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:49 am to terd ferguson
Ah the old "some Puerto Rican guy killed her" story
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:57 am to ChewyDante
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Suspect captured in 27 year old jogger Vanessa Marcotte's murder
I read this as a 27 year old case (cold case) of a jogger who was murdered. Then I saw the picture and I thought, that doesn't look like a photo from 1990!
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:00 am to Jimbeaux
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I read this as a 27 year old case (cold case) of a jogger who was murdered. Then I saw the picture and I thought, that doesn't look like a photo from 1990!
I guess I should have said "suspect captured in murder case of 27 year old jogger." It's the Monday morning after Easter weekend, I'm not at my best.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:02 am to ChewyDante
I read that to think the murder itself was 27 years old. Not her.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:03 am to ChewyDante
The guy's name is Colon?
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:04 am to member12
Yeah. Go figure--English isn't the only language
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:08 am to ChewyDante
That's a fricking shame. There should be an expedited death row for people who kill women that hot
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:38 am to upgrayedd
They tied him to the case via DNA. Most likely reason for the current charges are that they can link him to the scene via DNA but not to the actual murder YET. They want him in custody so he doesn't take off and so that they can question him. Homicide detectives always want a confession. So they will try for that first.
I don't recall the legalities of an in-custody interrogation and the requirement for the presence of counsel, in that jurisdiction it might even vary although it is primarily a universal constitutional requirement, but questioning him about something with which he isn't charged yet may or may not trigger the automatic right to counsel. It has been a while since I reviewed that issue. Someone more current might want to chime in on that.
I don't recall the legalities of an in-custody interrogation and the requirement for the presence of counsel, in that jurisdiction it might even vary although it is primarily a universal constitutional requirement, but questioning him about something with which he isn't charged yet may or may not trigger the automatic right to counsel. It has been a while since I reviewed that issue. Someone more current might want to chime in on that.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 10:43 am to Cosmo
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What is this baws immigration status?
I'm wondering the same thing.
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