After about 12 hours of interviews with both the State Police and Sayreville police, providing more information for the investigation into the disappearance of her five year-old-son, Timothy Wiltsey, Michelle Lodzinski sought mental health counseling.
NEW BRUNSWICK -- After about 12 hours of interviews with both the State Police and Sayreville police, providing more information for the investigation into the disappearance of her five year-old-son, Timothy Wiltsey, Michelle Lodzinski sought mental health counseling.
Lodzinski went to South Amboy Memorial Hospital the night of June 13, 1991 after meeting first with two members of the New Jersey State Police to discuss her explanations of the day her son disappeared at a Sayreville carnival on May 25, 1991, and then, hours later, with Sayreville police detectives.
The medical records of her visit to the now-defunct hospital's emergency room were introduced Tuesday afternoon by her attorney, Gerald Krovatin at a hearing in Superior Court.
Krovatin is fighting to keep Lodzinski's prior statements to law enforcement agencies and others out of her upcoming trial for her son's murder. Her trial is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2016.
Lodzinski was indicted in August 2014 for her son's murder, 23 years after she reported his disappearance from the Sayreville carnival.
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Krovatin began going over the records with Sayreville police Detective Sgt. Richard Sloan, now retired, but was stopped by Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves because Sloan was not familiar with them.
The records were brought up again in the second day of hearings on the motion to suppress at least 19 statements and other motions by both the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and Krovatin on Lodzinski's behalf.
The records indicate Lodzinski was brought to the hospital's emergency room shortly after 10 p.m. "hyper-ventilating," and looking for mental health counseling. She was prescribed several drugs and left the hospital against the advice of the medical personnel, according to the records read in court by the judge.
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Krovatin sought to have Sloan acknowledge Lodzinski was very stressed out by the ordeal of her son's disappearance and the media attention it drew, but Sloan testified while he acknowledged she was stressed, he believed one of the stressors "was that police no longer believed her story."
Retired State Police Lt. Richard Capitan testified Wednesday that he and another investigator with the State Police were asked by a member of the State Police missing persons unit to interview Lodzinski to determine "whether she was telling the whole truth about the disappearance of her son."
The story she told Capitan differed from the one she told Sayreville detectives, he said and when he confronted her with the differences, "she became less cooperative."
"She said either charge me with the crime or I'm walking out of here and she left," Capitan testified, adding, "she stormed out."
Lodzinski initially told police Timmy was with her when she went to get a soda but was gone when she turned around after paying for it at the concession stand, Sloan testified. She changed her story several times over the next month, telling police a woman and two men took the child.
Wiltsey's remains were found in a marshy area in Raritan Center in Edison 11 months after his disappearance.
In the months and years following Timmy's death, Lodzinski'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.
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