Angelo Colon-Ortiz Wiki, Bio, Age, Family, Charged, Murder, Google employee

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Angelo Colon-Ortiz Wiki – Angelo Colon-Ortiz Bio

Angelo Colon-Ortiz accused of killing a Google employee while she was out jogging near her mother’s house in Massachusetts pleaded guilty to her crime on Wednesday, officials said.

Angelo Colón-Ortiz, 31, was sentenced to life in prison after the family of  Vanessa Marcotte, 27, urged prosecutors to accept the plea deal and avoid the gruesome details of her murder, according to the Office of the Worcester County District Attorney.  according to wiki-bio,

Vanessa Marcotte, a Google account manager living in New York City, was visiting her mother in Princeton in August 2016 when she left to work out around 1 p.m. and she never came back.

Her body was found in the woods about a half mile from her mother’s home at 8:20 p.m. that night, police said.

Angelo Colon-Ortiz and  Vanessa Marcotte Age

Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, and  Vanessa Marcotte was 27 years old.

Google employee Vanessa Marcotte – Murder investigation

Police received more than 1,300 leads during their investigation, but made a major breakthrough in the case when a Massachusetts state trooper spotted the driver of a dark SUV matching the suspect’s description and quickly noted the license plate number on his hand. according to WIKISINFOS,

Detectives compared DNA obtained from the driver to that found on Marcotte’s hands and arrested Colon-Ortiz in April 2017.

Colon-Ortiz pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed robbery charges, according to the prosecutor’s office.

“We are grateful and pleased that the legal process has achieved what we have always wanted, that this man is now in a place where he cannot hurt anyone else like he hurt Vanessa,” the Marcotte family said in a statement.

“To honor and remember Vanessa, we will continue to educate and protect women through the Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation.”

The foundation was established in 2017 in memory of Marcotte, according to her website. The nonprofit organization has trained thousands of women in self-defense workshops and offers educational programs on healthy relationships and violence.

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