Revenge Motive in Woodbury Woman's Slaying: Prosecutors
Richard Santiago is charged with murder in the December 2012 stabbing death of Ramona Johnstone in Woodbury. She had testified against him during a 2006 trial in a different slaying.
Richard Santiago stabbed Ramona Johnstone 15 times because she'd testified against him in a 2006 trial that sent him to prison, prosecutors allege. The prosecution believes Johnstone’s role as a witness in Santiago’s 2006 trial “is the reason he killed her,” Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Laurie Cimino said in court today, according to an account provided by the prosecutor's office. The revelation came Monday during a bail hearing for Santiago, 60, in state Superior Court in Woodbury. The bail hearing was merely a formality, as Santiago is in state prison on a parole violation unrelated to Johnstone's slaying and is not eligible for release on the probation-violation charge until September. He has been held on $1 million bail…
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MancaveTroll
4:16 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Why was this fool released?? more ›