Apparent homocide victim dumped in Trenton.

By: Kevin Shea/The TimesMonday February 25, 2008, 7:15 PM

TRENTON — City sanitation employees found a body wrapped in a tarp and discarded on the side of a street like trash Monday morning in The Island section of the West Ward, police said.
The person is an apparent homicide victim, police said Monday night, but since the body appears to have been purposely discarded, detectives are unsure where the killing occurred, said the chief’s city detective, Capt. Joseph Juniak.
And the person has not been officially identified either, Juniak said.
Police were called to the 2000 block of Riverside Drive, which bends to become Clearfield Avenue, at about 11:50 a.m. Monday by sanitation employees, who reported finding a body.
Juniak and police spokesman Sgt. Pedro Medina said a body part was protruding from the crudely-fastened tarp, which was bound by heavy-duty tape.
Kevin Shea/The TimesHomicide detectives investigate the discovery of a body, found wrapped in a blue tarp along Riverside Drive in Trenton Monday morning.
The section of street is very close to Route 29, but a chain-link fence separates the residential street from the highway. Homes on the Riverside Drive side have yards that slope unobstructed to the Delaware River.
The discovery came just four days after the mummified body of a woman was found in the basement of a Sanford Street home in North Trenton.
Detectives believe that woman is 43-year-old Tracey Wilkerson, who vanished in November 2006, and so far there is no connection to Monday’s body, police said.
Until Monday, Trenton had yet to have a homicide victim in 2008, and before that the last city murder was Nov. 23.
City homicide Detective Brian Egan and Mercer County Prosecutor’s Detective Thomas Watters are the lead investigators.
Anyone with information about the body or suspicious activity on The Island are urged to call Egan at (609) 989-4131 or the Trenton police confidential tipline at (609) 989-3663.
Kevin Shea can be reached at (609) 989-5705 or kshea@njtimes.com.
See more in Breaking News, Crime, Police What the article is telling me is that a woman’s body was found wrapped in blue tarp.It was discovered by a sanitation worker that was doing his job late monday morning.The police said the women was probably a victim of homocide. They also think that the woman is Tracy Wilkerson, a 43 year old woman who disappeared in November 2006. The sanitation worker said he seen a body part protruding form the bag. The detectives are still under investigation.
In my opinion, I think that it is the women who disappeared in November. But in this society you never know!! It could be someone totally different. I think its crazy how dead bodies are found all over this world. You could just be walking down the street and you see a body by the dumpster. These homocides are happening all over…..before you leave the house always tell your family you love them because you never know it might be your last.

Nanny Drugs Toddlers!!!

By: The Associated Press

Thursday February 28, 2008, 8:02 AM

A nanny in the Bergen County borough of Westwood admitted to a judge Wednesday that she drugged two toddlers to keep them from misbehaving.

Jennifer Wolff pleaded guilty to third-degree child endangerment and faces up to 180 days in jail under a deal with prosecutors. The 24-year-old had faced up to 10 years in prison under the original charges.

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According to the very short article a nanny in Bergen County admitted to the judge and to the jury that she drugged two toddlers. She said she did it so they would go to sleep and that she wanted them to stop misbehaving. There were two people involved. Jennifer Wolff, the nanny, pleaded guilty for 3rd degree child endangerment and face  180 dys in jail. The other which is 24 faced 10 years in prison.

See thats exactly why when I have kids my wife is going to stay home and watch them. And I might not even leave them with her, because there is a thing call post partum depression. She could just lose it. But how could you drug an child because of the way they were acting. No matter how the child is acting you dont drug the child, you never know that child can die from that. Crazy people these days man!!!!

Three found stabbed to death in Irvington!!

Jonathan Schuppe and William Kleinknecht The Star-Ledger

Wednesday February 13, 2008, 8:23 PM

An Irvington man stabbed his girlfriend and her parents to death inside an apartment, then calmly walked into a Newark police precinct and confessed to the killings, authorities said.

Rakeem Gartrell, 22, was being held on $1 million bail this afternoon in the slayings of Latoya Thomas, 22, and her parents, Leroy Cooper and Elsie Thomas, both of whom were in their 60s, authorities said. Authorities found their mutilated bodies after the suspect walked into a Newark police station just before noon today.

“I just killed three people,” Gartrell said after walking into the city’s Fifth Precinct, Newark Police spokesman Detective Todd McClendon said.

Irvington Police Chief Michael Chase said his department received a call from Newark police, who reported the victims were in an apartment at 29 Arverne Terrace, in a working-class neighborhood between Grove Street and the Garden State Parkway, near Exit 144.

The three victims were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The suspect told police he had killed them the night before, authorities said.

Chase and Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow described the slayings as a product of a dispute between Gartrell and his girlfriend, who was the mother of two children – one of them Gartrell’s. They described an attack in which Gartrell stabbed his girlfriend numerous times – an assault so violent that the handle broke off the knife and the blade stayed inside her, Chase said.

“He broke the weapon off and left it in her,” he said. “It was a terrible scene.”

Gartrell then went into another room and killed the parents, who tried to fend him off by throwing plates and blocking him with furniture, authorities said. He killed the parents with a second kitchen knife, Chase said.

Gartrell has been charged with three counts of murder and two weapons offenses, prosecutors said. His record includes three previous arrests for assault and drug charges, according to court records.

From what the article was telling me it’s saying that a possesed man murderd his girlfriend and her parents. He killed his girlfriend because of a dispute they had earlier and I guess he decided hey why not kill the parents too!! It was said that he stabbed his girlfriend repeatedly so hard that he broke the knife inside of her. As he went in the bedroom to her parents they tried to fight him off with furntiure and plates but I guess that wasnt enough. He stabbed them to. Then the murderer, Gartrell went to the police station and confessed his slayings. He was charged with 3 counts of murder.

When I hear stuff like this i just sit and wonder. No matter what argument me and my girlfriend had, I would never kill her. He just went over board what ever the arguement was really wasn’t that serious. He could have just kept it moving like any other normal person would have done. Forget jail he needs serious medication and to be put in a pyshc institution!!

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