Zarate asked inmates how to fake insanity

Inmates: Accused killer asked how to fake insanity:

According to letters from inmates in the Passaic County Jail accused killer Jonathan Zarate asked them how to fake an insanity plea. These letters were sent to the then Morris County prosecutor in 2007. The letters also said that Zarate bragged about how he was going to beat the murder charge against him by using an insanity defense. One of the inmates he was asking how to be ‘insane’ was a doctor.

Zarate’s attorney is trying to prevent the inmates from testifying. He’s still trying for the diminished capacity defense even though this happened…

When questioned, Jonathan Zarate first told police he was dumping garbage in the Passaic River and volunteered to put it back in their Jeep and leave, according to testimony. After admitting Parks’ body was in the trunk, he claimed he “found her like that” when he went outside his home to meet her. When told that explanation was laughable, Zarate confessed, court papers said.

Again, Zarate and his brother brutally killed Jennifer Parks, dismembered her body, hid it for 24 hours, then tried dumping her body in the Passaic River. Doesn’t sound like diminished capacity to me.

3+ years and still no trial.