Videotaped confession details girl’s slaying:
Confession: Insult led to Randolph girl’s killing:
“When I stabbed her in the mouth, she was still alive, so I stabbed her in the neck,”
Those are the words of Jonathan Zarate in his videotaped confession describing the 2005 murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Parks. In the tape, he casually uttered those words while eating a Snickers bar.
The tape was played in court today to determine if the confession is admissible in the trial.
Zarate’s attorney, Rich Mazawey, argued that his client uses PCP, has OCD, anger issues, and was hallucinating at the time of the interview and the murder. Are those supposed to be reasons not to throw his ass in a hole for the rest of his life?
The lead investigator, Lt. Jane Recktenwald of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office, testified that Zarate did not appear to be under the influence of any drugs at the time of the interview.
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