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Union County Property of the _____________ _____, ________________________________________ ________________ — ^xahjauMua ___ 7 & a m Union man sentenced to 70 y e a rs fo r slaying, dismembering his girlfriend By Jenny Goldberg reflects "no sense of decency or humanity," said. He also referred to testimony that offs own children. Many of the letters Staff Writer he added. parts of Wyckoff s body have still not been urged the court to invoke a life sentence The Union man who killed his girl­ Ballister must serve at least 85 percent found. without parole in order “to serve justice,” friend, cut up her body and disposed of of a 62-year sentence for the murder of During the trial, officials said that only they said. A life sentence without parole most of it in five garbage bags near the April Wyckoff before the possibility of some of the victim’s dismembered body does not exist in New Jersey. Pulaski Skyway in Newark more than four parole, in addition to a consecutively parts were located after her death. Limbs The 43-year-old Wyckoff, a mother of years ago was sentenced to 70 years in applied eight-year sentence for desecration and other parts of Wyckoffs body were two from Cranford, was killed at Ballister’s prison Monday, Dec. 18. of human remains, the Union County Pros­ found in five black garbage bags by police Union home in what he described as an Matthew Ballister, 47, turned his back ecutor's Office said in a press release. along Raymond Boulevard in Newark days accident. He said he unknowingly ran over in protest on Superior Court Judge Stuart Referring to the evidence during the six- after she was killed on Oct. 22, 2013. her as she hid behind his SUV and then dis­ Peim right before Peim announced the sen­ week trial that ended with the guilty verdict "We had a funeral without her full membered her body in his garage during a tencing. Oct. 18, Peim pointed to the 9-1-1 phone body," Wyckoffs sister, Sheila Schenesky, fit of "drug-induced hysteria." The judge then had Ballister, dressed in call in which Wyckoff could be heard read from a statement before Peim After the victim’s family statements gray prison-issued fatigues, removed in yelling, “I’m going to die. He’s coming announced the sentence. were read, Ballister blamed Peim and the handcuffs to an anteroom off the court­ back.” Statements from multiple family mem­ criminal justice system for not giving him room to listen to the sentencing via loud­ "You heard the victim's screams bers were read into the record prior to the ”a fair and just trial. speaker. moments before she was murdered," Peim sentencing, including letters from Wyck­ See KILLER, Page 22 "I have handled many murder trials, and all of them involved brutal murders," Peim said. However, this case was differ­ Young patients take fantasy flight to North Pole ent, this was "barbaric and vile," he declared. By Jenny Goldberg To butcher and dispose of someone Staff Writer In some ways it was like any other flight. Forty children and their families waited anxiously to get on the plane at Newark Worrall Media Airport. Boarding passes were checked, and the kids, some anticipating their first closing for in-flight experience, urgently filed down the jetway, through the door and into their Christmas, New seats. But unlike the destinations of Orlando, Chicago or Los Angeles, this plane was Year’s holidays headed to the North Pole. In observance of the Christmas and The fantasy flight on Wednesday, Dec. New Year’s- holidays, the offices of 13, was for children who are patients at Worrall Media in Union will close at 5 Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, Newark p.m. on Friday, Dec. 22, and will not Beth Israel and University Medical Center reopen until Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 9 a.m. in Newark. We will be available on a limited sched­ Passengers received all the customary ule by phone during the closure, at safety instructions and during the one- 908-686-7700. During the Christmas hour plane ride, Christmas songs echoed week, our newspapers will be pub­ through the decorated aisles of the aircraft lished on Thursday, Dec. 28. as children and flight attendants dressed in Our deadlines for the issue of holiday-themed costumes sang over the Thursday, Jan 4, are: intercom. • Editorial copy, Friday, Dec. 29, Upon landing back at Newark Airport, noon. the plane was directed to a gate that had • Legal Advertising, Thursday, Dec. been transformed with fake snow, a live 28, noon. orchestra from student performers at New • Display Advertising, Friday, Dec. Jersey Performing Arts Center, Disney 29, noon. characters like Winnie the Pooh and, of Photo by Jenny Goldberg • Classified Advertising, Tuesday, course, Santa Claus. Forty children boarded a holiday themed plane at Newark Airport that took off Jan. 2, 2:30 p.m. See NORTH POLE, Page 14 and landed one hour later at a magically transformed North Pole destination. 2 — December 21, 2017 — Union County LocalSource Elizabeth officer charged with vehicular manslaughter, DWI By Rebecca Panico Middlesex County prosecutors had Staff Writer previously charged the off-duty police An off-duty Elizabeth police officer officer with driving while intoxicated, faces a vehicular manslaughter charge in careless driving and failing to yield in the the October death of a man killed while incident. riding his motorcycle in Elizabeth, the In a police report obtained through a Middlesex County Prosecutor’s office said public records request from Middlesex in a Dec. 13 press release. County, the description of the crash was Romulo Meneses-Alvarez, 30, of Eliza­ redacted, but a diagram of the accident beth, was charged Dec. 12 with the third- was left visible. degree crime of “strict liability vehicular The Middlesex County Prosecutor's homicide, for causing a death by driving Office said it was not in possession of any while intoxicated or under the influence.” police dash camera videos of the incident Jairo Lozano, 29, was riding his 2005 and that body camera footage was exempt GSX Suzuki motorcycle when he was from public disclosure since it is part of a struck and killed around 11:20 p.m. on criminal investigation. Oct. 31 by Meneses-Alvarez’s 2007 Jeep Meneses-Alvarez has been an Eliza­ Wrangler at the intersection of Elmora beth police officer since 2015, and cur­ Avenue and Vine Street in Elizabeth, rently makes $57,779, state records show. according to the release. Call to the Elizabeth Police Director Lozano was taken to Trinitas Regional James Cosgrove’s office seeking the Medical Center in Elizabeth, where he employment status of Meneses-Alvarez was pronounced dead from his injuries. were not returned. Although the crash occurred in Eliza­ The investigation is active and ongo­ beth, the case was transferred to Middle­ ing, according to the the Middlesex Coun­ sex County to avoid a conflict of interest. ty Prosecutor’s Office. Anyone with infor­ Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office mation is asked to call the office at 732- Photo by David VanDeventer spokeswoman Andrea Boulton said the 745-8842. SIGN OF THE SEASON — A snowplow operator navigates his way through conflict of interest was self-reported by Menese-Alvarez is scheduled to make the slushy streets of Rahway on Dec. 9, which signaled the actual, if not the prosecutors in Union County, but did not a first court appearance in Union County official, beginning of winter. elaborate. 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Smithereens fan Jeff Christian was a fre­ "I was just 12, and Pat was five years quent patron of Crossroads in Garwood, at older," Haussmann reminisced in a Dec 14 least when Pat DiNizio was playing solo phone interview. Despite the initial age dif­ acoustic shows. ference, their friendship grew, later per­ "These concerts were more intimate, in a forming together at Scotch-Plains and Fan- bar setting," Christian said in a Dec. 15 wood festivals and in their Black Sabbath phone interview. "He would cover his Tribute band. favorites of The Beatles, The Smithereens, "A lot of the music I knew was because of all in acoustics. him," Haussmann added. "Black Sabbath “DiNizio and The Smithereens kept a was his band." kind of Jersey rock ‘n’ roll alive in a time In addition to his musical life, Hauss­ when music was getting very synthesized mann reflected on the time DiNizio ran for with dubbed vocals.” the U.S. Senate on the Reform Ticket in The Scotch Plains native, who was The 2000. DiNizio and Haussmann rented a Smithereens’ lead guitarist, vocalist and trolley and drove it from Scotch Plains to songwriter, died Tuesday, Dec. 12, at the age New York, driving through the streets while of 62. Referring to the The Smithereens as playing and blasting their music through "the little rock band that could," Christian amplifiers. The duo later made a stop along noted “you could draw a pre-direct line from the way at the WFMU record fair in New R&B to British Invasion to The York and played a live set over the air there, Smithereens.” Haussmann said.
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