The jury in the Michelle Lodzinski murder trial will rehearing 2 witnesses' testimony. Watch video
NEW BRUNSWICK -- Jurors will rehear the testimony of two witnesses as they try to determine if Michelle Lodzinski murdered her 5-year-old son Timothy Wiltsey in May 1991.
They will hear the part of retired Sayreville police Sgt. Raymond Szkodny's testimony in which he showed her a sneaker found by a Bound Brook High School science teacher in a remote section of Raritan Center in Edison in October 1991 and she denied that it was Timmy's.
They will also hear the testimony of the trial's first witness, who testified back on March 16, 2016. Gary Skolnick, an auxilliary police officer assigned to the carnival at Kennedy Park in Sayreville, said he first learned from a friend of Lodzinski's niece that her son was missing.
Jurors are scheduled to return to Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves's courtroom about 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Lodzinski reported her son missing on May 25, 1991 at the carnival.
During the first weeks after Timothy disappeared, Lodzinski gave police several different statements of what happened including one in which he was abducted by a woman and two men.
Timmy's skeletal remains were found in a swampy area of Raritan Center in April 1992, 11 months after he disappeared.
Although investigators testified during the nearly three-month trial that she was the prime suspect in the disappearance of her son nearly from the beginning, Lodzinski was not charged with her son's murder until August 2014 after the cold case was reopened by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.
The jury began its deliberations Thursday and has asked to rehear six other witnesses not including the ones they will rehear Tuesday.
They must decide among the charges of murder, aggravated manslaughter and manslaughter. Here's how the charges differ:
-- Murder is punishable by up to life in prison, and the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lodzinski purposely and or knowingly caused the death or serious bodily injury resulting in the death of her son.
-- Aggravated manslaughter is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, and the state must prove that Lodzinski recklessly caused Timothy's death under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life.
-- Manslaughter is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and the state must prove that Lodzinski recklessly, or in the heat of passion, caused Timothy's death as a result of reasonable provocation.
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