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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Woman found in burning New Jersey home was murdered

Eyewitness NewsEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The death of an elderly woman whose body was found inside her burning northern New Jersey home this week has been ruled a homicide.

Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli says 70-year-old Barbara Vernieri was found shortly after police and firefighters arrived at her East Rutherford home around 12:30 p.m. Friday.

A cause of death was not immediately known, and Molinelli did not disclose further details. An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday.

An East Rutherford official tells The Record (http://bit.ly/UczEF9) that a sliding screen door at the two-family home had been slashed and that Vernieri may have been stabbed.

The official also told the newspaper that the fire had been set in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Newark deli clerk murdered during botched robbery

Web produced by Bill King, Eyewitness NewsNEWARK (WABC) -- A shooting during an apparent botched robbery at a grocery store left one man dead in Newark late Thursday night.

The clerk, described as a hard-working man who recently became a father, was help up at gunpoint and shot when he struggled with the thieves.

He was identified by those close to him as Jamil Bader, and he was killed while working inside the Family Grocery on Clinton Avenue around 10 p.m. It is a family business owned by the victim's father.

Police say he was confronted by three suspects who held up the store at gunpoint. Bader reportedly attempted to tackle one of the suspects when another came from behind and shot him in the back of the head.

Jamil's uncle was also in the store with customers and witnessed the horror unfold. Family members said Jamil was engaged to be married and had a 1-year-old daughter who was the light of his life.

Residents who live near the bodega were outraged.

"He works six days a week, 12 hours a day," one nearby resident said. "He wasn't your average...kid. He wasn't hanging in the street. He wasn't gang banging. He was working in the store with his father."

The suspects escaped in a dark-colored four-door vehicle. Police were looking for three men armed with a .40-caliber handgun.

It is believed they fled without any money.

A makeshift memorial has been set up at the scene.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Woman, 92, murdered for loose change, officials say

ELIZABETH (WABC) -- The suspect is held in the Union County jail held on more than a million dollars bail and charged with a heinous murder that even hardened investigators cannot believe.

"A defenseless woman, who was in her home minding her own business, was strangled by Daniel Rios," Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said.

That 38-year old suspect is accused of pushing his way into a home, where he came face to face with 92-year old Annette Hemple.

"She attempted to scream. He put his hand on her face and pushed her a distance into the living room, onto the floor and he strangled her," Romankow said.

Investigators said he went through the apartment collecting cups of coins. In all, he found just 360 dollars in loose change, which he cashed in at a local supermarket.

"He acknowledged he did this. That he killed this lady," romankow said.

A week before the murder, Rios was spotted by residents in a nearby block, allegedly breaking into another house. He was followed and reported to police, who later issue a warrant for his arrest.

He was found in Newark, police say, and revealed his disturbing pattern.

"Most of the time he would walk from home to home, ring the door bell. If the occupants didn't answer he would break into the home," Elizabeth Det. Tom Kuczer said.

It is not immediately clear if he has a lawyer. He was arrested last week and is being held on $1.5 million bail.

Officials said Hemple was last seen alive on May 24, and discovered dead a few hours later, by a family member who lived on the second-floor of Hemple's two-family home.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

91-year-old woman found murdered in home

Eyewitness NewsELIZABETH (WABC) -- Police in Elizabeth, New Jersey are trying to solve the murder of a 91-year-old woman inside her home.

The killing happened on Thursday in what authorities believe was a robbery attempt.

Annette Hempel lived on the first floor of a two family home at 673 Jefferson Avenue in Elizabeth.

She was last seen alive by a family member who lives on the second floor around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. When the family member returned a few hours later they found Hempel on the floor of the living room unresponsive, said prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow.

She was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:21p.m.

The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, but how she was killed has not been released.

A nearly life-long resident of the city Hempel was known in the neighborhood as a kind woman.

"Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home," said Romankow. "This is nothing but a senseless and brutal act against a defnelsess woman. As with all homicides we will use every available resource to make sure the killer is captured."

Union County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to the arrest and indictment of the person or people responsible for the homicide of Ms. Hempel. Anonymous calls may be placed to 908-654-TIPS or via the Internet at http://www.uctip.org/.

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Man who murdered 2 in NJ church gets life terms

Joseph Pallipurath, suspect in a deadly church shooting in New Jersey.

Eyewitness NewsPATERSON -- A California man who shot to death his estranged wife and another person inside a New Jersey church has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole.

Joseph Pallipurath of Sacramento also received a consecutive 20-year sentence for attempted murder when he was sentenced Friday.

Pallipurath was convicted last month of murdering 24-year-old Reshma James and 25-year-old Dennis Mallooseril, a bystander who tried to help her. He had also been convicted of attempted murder for shooting another woman.

Prosecutors say Pallipurath drove across the country to confront his wife, who had left to escape what relatives say was an abusive marriage. She was killed in the vestibule of St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton in 2008.

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Marine murdered in apparent carjacking attempt

Web produced by Bob Monek, Eyewitness NewsJERSEY CITY (WABC) -- The family of a young marine in Jersey City is mourning his loss, not in battle but at the hands of a carjacker.

Corporal Anthony Adams, 23, was killed in an attempted carjacking.

Adams, who served Iraq, was supposed to be re-deployed to Africa in a few weeks.

Clutching a picture of her son, Pattie Laboo fought back tears.

She says she isn't angry. She can't feel a thing. She is numb.

Her son wouldn't want her to be angry.

"He's not that type of person," she said.

Anthony went to boot camp right from high school, served a year in Iraq and was on leave before volunteering to be deployed to Africa.

He was the life of the party a friend to everyone.

That's how Corporal Adams lived his life. It ended with his car crashing into another car after he was shot.

The Hudson County prosecutor says shortly after midnight, someone tried to carjack him. We don't know why shots were fired, but they were and Corporal Adams was killed.

A camera right above where it happened has helped the prosecutor's office to identify the shooter as 20-year old Earl Austin.

A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Pattie always knew "that call" could come when he was away, a courageous marine fighting for this country, but she never expected this.

"He lived and died for the marines. He would tell me, 'I love my country. I love my family,'" she said.

Corporal Adam's sister is graduating from college. He was supposed to be there and at a celebratory barbeque weekend.

"I have close family, very close family... And I know I can rely on them for anything I need. That's my support system right there," Patti said.

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