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Bayonne man found responsible for picoscope 4223 murdering girlfriend, dumping physique on New york freeway

Revealed: Wednesday, February 01, 2012, twelve:29 PM Up-to-date: Wednesday, February 01, 2012, 5:07 PM
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Shawn Southerland listens to testimony for the duration of his murder trial on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, as prosecutors work to convict him within the loss of life of his Bayonne girlfriend who was choked to death ahead of getting dumped in the Bronx. Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
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A Bayonne gentleman who defended himself at trial was discovered accountable for murdering his girlfriend and automotive scanners dumping her entire body while in the Bronx.
Shawn Southerland, fifty, showed no emotion when Hudson County Superior Court docket Judge Francis Schultz declared he was accountable for murdering Christie Neely, 36, whose human body was identified within a suitcase on the side of a Henry Hudson Parkway freeway on April 7, 2007.
Southerland faces thirty a long time to existence in jail when he's sentenced on March sixteen.
Schultz, who deliberated over every week just before saying his verdict within the non-jury trial, explained even without having DNA evidence he might have experienced no sensible question that Southerland experienced killed Neely. Prosecutors introduced facts in the trial that Neely's DNA was discovered inside a suitcase that Southerland purchased in a Bayonne store and later returned.
Christie Neely
Neely's human body was identified in a similar, but greater suitcase.
There was no jury on the ask for of Southerland, who had a stand-by lawyer or attorney with him throughout the trial. General public Defender John Convery was his standby lawyer through the trial, but Joseph Russo appeared with Southerland right now since Convery is sick.
The case was prosecuted by Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Timonthy Moriarty, who retired yesterday. Hudson