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Son’s Strange Rants About Demons, Divine Gifts Preceded Murder-Suicide In Wealthy CT Town
Days before police say he killed his mother and then himself in a murder-suicide that shook a wealthy Connecticut town, 56-year-old Stein Erik Soelberg had been posting rambling and paranoid thoughts to his 100,000 Instagram followers, claiming he had “special gifts from God” and warning about tampered devices, brain implants, and a “massive, spiritual and kinetic war.”
Soelberg and his mother, Suzanne Adams, 83, were found dead Tuesday, Aug. 5, inside their Old Greenwich home (where the median home price is about $2.1 million), Greenwich police said Friday, Aug. 8.
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Winning $1.15M Jersey Cash 5 Ticket Sold In NJ
Someone in New Jersey is holding a ticket worth more than $1.15 million from Saturday’s Jersey Cash 5 drawing, state lottery officials said.
The winning numbers for Aug. 9 were 10, 17, 24, 31, and 40. The Xtra number was 4, according to the New Jersey Lottery website.
The jackpot-winning ticket is worth $1,148,993.
Other prizes from Saturday’s draw included $500 for 4/5 with Bullseye, $250 for 4/5, $30 for 3/5 with Bullseye, $15 for 3/5, and $5 for 2/5 with Bullseye.
Lottery officials have not yet announced where the winning ticket was sold.
Somerset Driver, 20, Killed In Route 1 Plainsboro Crash With Dump Truck: Prosecutor
A 20-year-old man was killed and his passenger critically injured in a three-vehicle crash on Route 1 on Friday, Aug. 8, authorities said.
Jonathan Martinez, 20, of Somerset, was heading south when his Acura TSX struck the back of a dump truck just after 1 a.m. at College Road, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Plainsboro Police Chief Eamon Blanchard said in a joint statement.
The impact of the crash sent the dump truck into the left lane, where it was struck by a Hyundai Genesis, Ciccone and Blanchard said.
Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene while his p…
Motel 6, Red Roof Inn Ignored ‘Obvious Signs’ Of Teen Sex Trafficking, Federal Suits Allege
A New Jersey woman has filed two lawsuits in New Jersey federal court alleging that Red Roof Inn and Motel 6 turned a blind eye while she was beaten, raped, and sold for sex as a teenager.
In court documents, the alleged victim Jane Doe claims that she was trafficked by Stanton Krogulski, a man she met in May 2014, when she was 17 years old, grieving her mother’s death, and facing homelessness.
One suit filed July 9 by Hach, Rose, Schirripa, and Cheverie LLP alleges that Jane Doe was lured to Motel 6 on Route 73 North in Maple Shade, where Krogulski — who was killed in Philadelphia in …
