Thursday, September 13, 2012
Detective Benjamin Miller has been recognized for his work during the Amy Giordano homicide investigation
Detective Benjamin Miller of the Hightstown Police Department will receive the NJHIA Excellence in Homicide Investigation Award on October 25. He was nominated by Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Meidt of the Mercer County Prosecutors Office to recognize outstanding investigative efforts during a homicide investigation. New Jersey Homicide Investigators Association President Geoffrey Noble congratulated Miller on behalf of the NJHIA Board of Directors for his work during the Amy Giordano homicide investigation. “He, along with his colleagues from the Mercer County Prosecutors Office and NJ State Police did an excellent job working as a team to solve this complex multi-state investigation,” Noble said in an email. Miller has been …
Friday, March 9, 2012
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 killing his Hightstown mistress in 2007 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to a Trenton Times report. Saved Google searches for the words "martial arts lethal blows to the back of the head" 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 …
Friday, November 4, 2011
He pled guilty earlier this year to a 2007 killing.
The man who pled guilty to killing his Hightstown mistress in 2007 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, is claiming evidence was improperly admitted and wants his conviction overturned, according to a report from The Trenton Times. Rosario DiGirolamo, 36, admitted to striking Amy Giordano, 27 with a hammer and killing her during an argument on June 8, 2007 in her apartment above the former Slowdown Café. DiGirolamo later abandoned their child, Michael, in a parking lot of a Delaware hospital. DiGirolamo argues that the way the handsaw was tested prevented the defense from proving it was never used, and the appeal also says the Internet searches should not have been admitted into evidence, The Trenton Times report said. One of the …
Mike
11:40 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Some very insightful, well though out comments above. It seems the good people of Heightstown recognize a scumbag when they have suffered under the tyranny. Mike more ›