Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Hillsborough Man Strangled His Victim Before Setting Her Home On Fire

An affidavit filed with the Somerset Court revealed, Juan Jimenez-Olivera, the man charged with murdering a woman in her Hillsborough home before setting it on fire, admitted to strangling her to death, according to nj.com. 

It was found that Jimenez-Olivera and his victim, 30-year-old Sviatlana Dranko, worked together at a pizzeria - however, a motive for the murder has not been release by authorities, according to nj.com. 

Find out more here  http://www.nj.com/somerset/index.ssf/2014/05/affidavit_man_strangled_coworker_before_setting_her_hil...


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