Crime & Safety
DiGirolamo Appeal Denied by Appellate Court
Hightstown woman was murdered in 2007 in an apartment above what was the Slowdown Cafe.
An appellate court upheld a judge's decision on Thursday to allow two pieces of critical evidence in the trial of Rosario DiGirolamo, who pleaded guilty in January 2011 to , according to a Trenton Times report.
that were made on June 4, 6 and 7, days before the killing, were admitted into evidence during the trial as well as a circular saw that was seized from DiGirolamo’s garage that he allegedly bought at Home Depot in East Windsor to cut up Amy Giordano's body.
Documents from the appellate court also revealed that DiGirolamo tried to kill Giordano the previous week by poisoning her, according to the Trenton Times report.
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DiGirolamo, 36, in her apartment above the former on June 8, 2007. DiGirolamo later abandoned their child, Michael, in a parking lot of a Delaware hospital.
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