Michelle Lodzinski showed "no visible response" when she was told by police they had found the remains of her five-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, in a stream on Raritan Center in Edison 11 months after he disappeared from a carnival in Sayreville in May 1991.
NEW BRUNSWICK --Michelle Lodzinski was called down to the Sayreville Police Department in April 1992 to get an update on a search going on at the Raritan Center in Edison for her five-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, who she reported missing from a carnival 11 months earlier.
Sayreville Detective Sgt. Richard Sloan, now retired, recounted in a court hearing Tuesday how he and Lt. Thomas Rizzo of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office broke the news to Lodzinski that her son's skull had been found and identified by his dentist.
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"Her response wasn't much of a response," Sloan told Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves. "There was no visible response."
Sloan said after telling Lodzinski that her son was found, the officers asked if she would answer some questions for them about discrepancies in her prior stories and she agreed to talk to them.
He said he listened for a while, but then left the interview to Rizzo.
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Lodzinski, 47, was indicted in August 2014 for the murder of her son.
Sloan was the first witness in the hearing of a motion by Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor R. Scott LaMountain to introduce as evidence 19 statements, formal and informal, that Lodzinski has made to several law enforcement agencies and others over the past 24 years about Wiltsey's disappearance and death.
In the months and years following Timmy's death, Lodzinsky's behavior was puzzling and bizarre, authorities said. In addition to changing the story she gave law enforcement several times, she was later arrested twice--once for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and again in 1997 for stealing from an employer.
In cross-examination of Sloan, Lodzinski's attorney, Gerald Krovatin, tried to show how much stress she was under during the days following his disappearance which drew national attention.
When Sloan acknowledged he believed Lodzinski appeared stressed at a June 7, 1991 interview, Krovatin tried to get him to acknowledged the media coverage played a large role in the stress, but Sloan said he believed it was "because the police no longer believed her story."
The hearing will resume Wednesday morning before Judge Nieves.
Lodzinski's trial is set for Jan. 12, 2016.
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