Michelle Lodzinski told a Middlesex County investigator in 1991 that she knew it was a struggle to be a single mom, but she had to make the best of it when she had her son, Timothy Wiltsey.
NEW BRUNSWICK -- Michelle Lodzinski told a Middlesex County investigator in 1991 that she knew it was a struggle to be a single mom, but she had to make the best of it when she had her son, Timothy Wiltsey.
She told Mary Robillard that she didn't want a boy when she had Timmy, but later said in the interview he was "the most important person in the world" to her" Robillard testified Thursday during a hearing in Superior Court.
Robillard, now retired, was helping in the investigation of Wiltsey's disappearance in May 1991 at a carnival in Kennedy Park in Sayreville when he was five years old.
She said she told Lodzinski, who was then 23, how hard it must be to support and care for a child on her own and Lodzinski said, "I got myself into it."
Lodzinski told Robillard she became pregnant at 17 and had to drop out of high school when she was four months pregnant and move with the baby's father to Iowa. She moved back to New Jersey after Timmy was born.
Robillard said at one point in the interview, which was in Lodzinski's apartment, when asked if she ever hurt Wiltsey, Lodzinski "burst into tears and said he was 'the most important person in the world to me.' "
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A short time later, after a few more questions, an angry Lodzinski told Robillard, "I'm....sick and tired of you guys accusing me of something," and ran out of her house.
Robillard said she was asked to conduct the interview because the Sayreville police and county detectives and investigators on the case believed Lodzinski was not telling them everything she knew about her son's disappearance. She said they believed "she (Lodzinski) would relate more to a woman than a man."
Lodzinski, 47, was indicted for Wiltsey's murder in August 2014 and is scheduled to go to trial Jan. 12, 2016.
Robillard was testifying on the third day of a hearing on pre-trial motions before Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves.
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The motions include permission to use at least 19 statements by Lodzinski to various law enforcement agencies and others about Wiltsey's disappearance and death and a motion by Lodzinski to suppress the statements.
There are other motions by both sides as well that Nieves must rule on and the judge will continue hearing legal arguments in the case Friday morning and Nov. 10, 2015.
Lodzinski was the main suspect in her son's disappearance from early in the investigation and, after his remains were found in Raritan Center in Edison 11 months later, in his death.
She 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, according to testimony during the hearing. He changed her story several times over the next month, telling police a woman and two men took the child.
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