Black N.J. man killed 3 black women, tried to kill 4th

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Missing College Student Found Dead in New Jersey
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Police found the body of a missing New Jersey college student as they searched a reservation in the state this week, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said.

The remains of Sarah Butler, 20, were found on the Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Butler, of Montclair, was a second year at New Jersey City University in Jersey City.

She was reported missing to the Montclair Police Department on Nov. 23 and was last seen at a recording studio in Orange, New Jersey, according to her sister.

The cause of her death is unknown and the New Jersey Regional Medical Examiner’s Office will perform an autopsy to determine how she died.

Police said that the Homicide Task Force is taking part in an ongoing investigation.

Investigators ask anyone with information to call the prosecutor’s tip line at (877) 847-7432.

 

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Man Pleads Not Guilty to Murder in Death of Missing New Jersey College Student Found Dumped in Woods
The body of 20-year-old Sarah Butler was found Dec. 1 in Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange
Published 4 hours ago

A 20-year-old New Jersey man has pleaded not guilty to murder and other crimes in the death of a college student whose body was found at a state forest reserve eight days after she was reported missing.

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, of East Orange, entered the plea in court Tuesday. He was arrested last week in the slaying of Sarah Butler, who was a second-year student at New Jersey City University.

Butler's mother, who cried throughout the hearing, at one point shouted, "My baby!"

Wheeler-Weaver is being held on $1 million bail as the case goes to a grand jury. It wasn't immediately clear if he or his attorney had additional comments on the allegations Tuesday.

Butler, of Montclair, was reported missing to the Montclair Police Department on Nov. 23 and had last been seen at a recording studio. Law enforcement officers found her body Dec. 1 in Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange.

Prosecutors say Weaver and Butler knew each other and spent time together at various points throughout the day before she was killed. Something happened, and police believe Wheeler-Weaver strangled the 20-year-old student, killing her, officials say.

He allegedly then took her car and dumped her body.

 

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Accused New Jersey College Student Killer Faces Charges in 2nd Murder
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Authorities say a man charged with murder in the death of a New Jersey college student is now accused of killing another woman.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray told NJ.com on Sunday that 20-year-old Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, of Orange, is charged with murder in the death of 33-year-old Joanne Brown.

He was ordered held Friday in lieu of $5 million bail. It's unclear if he has an attorney.

Murray says Brown was last seen Oct. 22 in Orange. A work crew found her body Dec. 5 at a vacant house in Orange. Murray says she was strangled.

Wheeler-Weaver recently pleaded not guilty to murder in the strangulation death of 20-year-old New Jersey City University student Sarah Butler, whose body was found Dec. 1 in West Orange.

 

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Man charged with strangling college student accused of killing another woman
By Joshua Rhett Miller
December 19, 2016 | 10:04am

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, is charged with murdering Sarah Butler (inset), 20, and dumping her body. Essex County Jail; Montclair Police


A man charged with strangling a college student is now accused of killing another woman – who was found dead inside a vacant New Jersey home.

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, N.J., was charged with murder in the death of Joanne Brown, 33, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray told NJ.com. He pleaded not guilty last week to murder and disturbing human remains in the death of Sarah Butler, a 20-year-old New Jersey City University student whose body was found beneath leaves and debris in Eagle Rock Reservation on Dec. 6.

Wheeler-Weaver was charged on Friday in the second killing and was ordered held on $5 million bail, Murray told NJ.com, adding that investigators want to hear from anyone with information regarding the two murders.

“We are looking for anyone who has additional information to call the tips line,” Murray said.

Murray said Brown was last seen on Oct. 22 in Orange. She was reported missing days later and a work crew found her body at a vacant house, where she apparently killed. Autopsies showed that both Brown and Butler had been strangled.

“The connection between the defendant and the victim remains under investigation,” Murray told NJ.com.

Butler, meanwhile, was remembered as a college freshman who loved to dance and performed several times at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Butler also enjoyed playing volleyball and worked as a lifeguard at a YMCA in Montclair.

“As a 20-year-old college student, she had a bright and promising future ahead of her,” Jo Ann Short, president and CEO of the Montclair YMCA, said in a statement. “The mystery behind her disappearance and ultimate loss of life is unsettling. Her family is grieving and we pray for answers so their healing can begin.”

Butler was reported missing on Nov. 23, after failing to meet her family for a scheduled trip to Jamaica. Murray told reporters during a previously held news conference on the case that Butler and Wheeler-Weaver were at several locations together the day before in Orange.

Murray said they had a “slight acquaintanceship” but she declined to elaborate any further, saying there’s no indication that the two were romantically involved.

“This is a family’s worst nightmare,” family friend Pluchet Alexander told NJ.com. “She never did anything to anyone and was loved by all.”

Members of Montclair’s Premier Dance Theatre performed on Friday during Butler’s funeral, where crowds gathered for services following a vigil outside the family’s home.

Relatives of Wheeler-Weaver could not be reached for comment, NJ.com reports. It’s unclear whether he hired an attorney and prosecutors declined to discuss a motive in the killings.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call (877) 847-7432.

 

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Serial Killer Probe Opened After 3rd NJ Body Found: Sources
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver has pleaded not guilty to murder in the deaths of 20-year-old NJ student Sarah Butler and 33-year-old Joanne Brown
By Brian Thompson and Ida Siegal
Published at 11:44 AM EST on Dec 22, 2016

Authorities believe the 20-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing a college student and another woman in the last few months may be linked to a third slaying, and investigators are actively looking at him as a possible serial killer, law enforcement sources familiar with the probe tell NBC 4 New York.

The sources say Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is being investigated in the death of a missing 19-year-old Philadelphia escort whose burned body was discovered in an abandoned building in Orange, New Jersey. Though she has not been publicly identified, she was living at the Garden State Motel in Union Township when she disappeared, the sources say. She vanished in September.

It wasn't clear what investigators believed tied Wheeler-Weaver to the case, but the body of at least one of the other women he's accused of killing was found under similar circumstances.

He has not been charged with killing the 19-year-old woman. His attorney, Shevelle McPherson, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on a possible connection to the case.

On Tuesday, Wheeler-Weaver pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of 33-year-old Joanne Brown, who was last seen Oct. 22 in Orange and whose body was found in a vacant house in Newark on Dec. 5.

He has also pleaded not guilty to murder and other crimes in the death of 20-year-old Sarah Butler, a sophomore at New Jersey City University who was reported missing Nov. 23. The Montclair woman's body was found eight days later on the Eagle Rock Reservation.

Investigators said Butler and Brown didn't appear to know each other, but both were killed in the same manner: strangulation and asphyxiation. Police have not revealed potential motives in the slayings.

Wheeler-Weaver remains jailed on $5 million bail.

Butler's sister told NBC 4 New York Tuesday, before news broke of the possible connection to the third slaying, that she wasn't surprised Wheeler-Weaver had been accused of more deadly violence — but she did say she was stunned.

"Usually I just hear about this in movies," Aliyah Butler said. "I didn't think that things like this and people actually happened in the real world."

"Now I'm wondering how many girls he's hurt like this," she said. "I'm just hoping the number isn't large because what he did to my sister was terrible."

Asked whether they believe the deaths are the work of a serial killer, acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said Tuesday, "I'm not gonna comment on that."

McPherson insists her client is innocent and that prosecutors don't have enough evidence to connect him to the deaths of Brown and Butler.

She said Tuesday the evidence she has seen is "very circumstantial."

"They're trying to accuse him of this [second] crime, because manner of deaths are similar," she said. "If they're gonna try to secure a conviction based on manner of death, they're gonna have to come up with more than that."

NBC 4 New York has learned Wheeler-Weaver comes from a family that includes at least two law enforcement officers -- one a cop in East Orange who lives in his home and another who works for the Newark Police Department.

Wheeler-Weaver was most recently employed as a security guard for Sterling Security, a firm owned by two former Newark police officers. In that capacity, he worked at a Shoprite in Union Township.

The security firm didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

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Accused Killer of Two NJ Women Now Faces Third Murder Charge
2/27/17

The 20-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing a college student and another woman in the last few months will now be charged with the murder of a Philadelphia woman as well, Essex County prosecutors said Monday.

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is accused in the Sept. 1, 2016 murder of 19-year-old Robin West. Prosecutors say he killed her in Orange, then set fire to the empty home.

West, previously described by sources as an escort, was living in Union Township at the time, and was reported missing in September. Wheeler-Weaver is also accused of attacking another 34-year-old woman who survived the attack, prosecutors say.

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19 year-old victim Robin West

 

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Man Charged With Killing 3 Women, Including Philly Teen
February 27, 2017 7:05 PM

NEWARK, N.J. (CBS) — A New Jersey man already charged with killing two women was charged Monday with killing a Philadelphia teen, and attempting to kill a fourth woman.

On Monday, a grand jury indicted 20-year-old Khalil Wheeler-Weaver in the death of 19-year-old Robin West, of Philadelphia. Investigators said he killed West on Sept. 1 and then set fire to a vacant house in Orange where he dumped her body.

In December, Wheeler-Weaver was also charged in the deaths and sexual assaults of 20-year-old New Jersey City University student Sarah Butler, of Montclair and 33-year-old Joanne Brown, of Newark. The attacks allegedly happened between September and November.

Butler was reported missing Nov. 23, and her body was found buried under leaves and debris in Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange on Dec. 1. Brown was last seen Oct. 22 in Orange, and a work crew found her body Dec. 5 at a vacant house in Orange.

He has also been charged with attempting to kill a 34-year-old woman in November, but investigators said she survived. She was treated at a hospital and released.

Wheeler-Weaver remains jailed on $5 million bail.

 

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Black serial killer arrested in NJ

Prosecutors: N.J. man killed 3 women, tried to kill 4th

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver

Killed three women, tried to kill a fourth.

The three fatalities are all black.


http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2..._3_coun.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured

 

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http://nypost.com/2017/03/03/accused-serial-killer-might-have-claimed-a-fourth-victim/

Accused serial killer might have claimed a fourth victim
By Jamie Schram
March 3, 2017 | 9:46am | Updated

An accused North Jersey serial killer already charged in the slayings of three women is suspected of trying to murder a fourth victim, prosecutors revealed this week.

Baby-faced former Shoprite security guard Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, has been linked to the strangulation murders of college student Sarah Butler, 20, and Joanne Brown, 33, as well as the killing of Philadelphia hooker Robin West, 19, whose corpse was found badly burned, police said.

The suspect is now being accused of trying to snuff out the life of a 34-year-old woman after she recently came forward to tell police that she was attacked in Elizabeth, Rolling Stone magazine reported.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced Thursday that Wheeler-Weaver has been indicted for the three murders and charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and attempted murder in the fourth case.

Wheeler-Weaver had no criminal record before prosecutors announced in December that he was responsible for the slay spree.

The accused killer, who comes from a family of law-enforcement officers, was first charged with choking to death Butler, a sophomore at New Jersey City University, NBC reported.

Butler had vanished Nov. 23, and her body was found eight days later in Eagle Rock Reservation, a 400-acre forest straddling Montclair and West Orange.

New Jersey investigators pored over unsolved homicide cases across the state and saw similarities in the other two murders, the PhillyVoice reported.

West, a Philly prostitute, was turning tricks in a Union Township motel near where Wheeler-Weaver worked as a Shoprite guard just before she disappeared, cops said.

Her charred corpse was discovered inside a vacant building in Orange on Sept. 1. It was unclear how Wheeler-Weaver allegedly murdered her.

Wheeler-Weaver then strangled Brown, whose corpse was discovered inside an abandoned building in Newark on Dec. 5, police said. Brown had not been seen since Oct. 22, when she took a drive in a blue Dodge Caravan, which was later recovered by police in Essex County.

Investigators believe that the murders were sexually motivated and noted that all of the victims were young women, according to media reports. He was friendly with Butler and had contact with Brown before he allegedly killed her.

Wheeler-Weaver has been slapped with a total of 11 charges, including murder and desecration of human remains.

He has already pleaded not guilty to the slayings of Butler and Brown, and is currently being held on $5 million bail in the Essex County jail.

He is scheduled to be arraigned on March 13 for the West homicide and the attempted murder of the fourth victim.

 

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Accused serial killer might have claimed a fourth victim
By Jamie Schram
March 3, 2017 | 9:46am | Updated

An accused North Jersey serial killer already charged in the slayings of three women is suspected of trying to murder a fourth victim, prosecutors revealed this week.

Baby-faced former Shoprite security guard Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, has been linked to the strangulation murders of college student Sarah Butler, 20, and Joanne Brown, 33, as well as the killing of Philadelphia hooker Robin West, 19, whose corpse was found badly burned, police said.

The suspect is now being accused of trying to snuff out the life of a 34-year-old woman after she recently came forward to tell police that she was attacked in Elizabeth, Rolling Stone magazine reported.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced Thursday that Wheeler-Weaver has been indicted for the three murders and charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and attempted murder in the fourth case.

Wheeler-Weaver had no criminal record before prosecutors announced in December that he was responsible for the slay spree.

The accused killer, who comes from a family of law-enforcement officers, was first charged with choking to death Butler, a sophomore at New Jersey City University, NBC reported.

Butler had vanished Nov. 23, and her body was found eight days later in Eagle Rock Reservation, a 400-acre forest straddling Montclair and West Orange.

New Jersey investigators pored over unsolved homicide cases across the state and saw similarities in the other two murders, the PhillyVoice reported.

West, a Philly prostitute, was turning tricks in a Union Township motel near where Wheeler-Weaver worked as a Shoprite guard just before she disappeared, cops said.

Her charred corpse was discovered inside a vacant building in Orange on Sept. 1. It was unclear how Wheeler-Weaver allegedly murdered her.

Wheeler-Weaver then strangled Brown, whose corpse was discovered inside an abandoned building in Newark on Dec. 5, police said. Brown had not been seen since Oct. 22, when she took a drive in a blue Dodge Caravan, which was later recovered by police in Essex County.

Investigators believe that the murders were sexually motivated and noted that all of the victims were young women, according to media reports. He was friendly with Butler and had contact with Brown before he allegedly killed her.

Wheeler-Weaver has been slapped with a total of 11 charges, including murder and desecration of human remains.

He has already pleaded not guilty to the slayings of Butler and Brown, and is currently being held on $5 million bail in the Essex County jail.

He is scheduled to be arraigned on March 13 for the West homicide and the attempted murder of the fourth victim.

 

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‘You’re not a serial killer, right?’ woman texts man before he murders her

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver on trial over series of brutal killings in New Jersey


11/13/19

Sarah Butler was nervous.

The 20-year-old college student had borrowed the keys to her mother’s van, explaining that she wanted to meet up with a friend while home in Montclair, New Jersey, during the Thanksgiving break.

What she didn’t mention, though, was that the “friend” was an online acquaintance offering to pay her $500 for sex. She had backed out of meeting him in person before, authorities say, but this time, she planned to go through with it.

“You’re not a serial killer, right?” she messaged him before leaving the house. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver was exactly that, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The 23-year-old is accused of murdering three women and attempting to kill a fourth, and authorities say that Butler was his final victim.

 

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New Jersey Man Convicted of Killing 3 Women, Including College Student From Montclair
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver now faces a potential sentence of life plus 80 years
Published 1 hour ago • Updated 1 hour ago

A New Jersey man charged in the murders of three women and the attempted murder of a fourth was convicted on all counts.

An Essex County jury deliberated for just two hours Thursday before convicting Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, who now faces a potential sentence of life plus 80 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Wheeler-Weaver, 23, of Orange, killed 20-year-old Sarah Butler, 33-year-old Joanne Brown and 19-year-old Robin West in 2016. They also accuse him of trying to kill another woman that year.

Butler was a sophomore at New Jersey City University who had been reported missing in November 2016. The Montclair woman's body was found eight days later on the Eagle Rock Reservation.

Brown had last been seen in October of that year; her body was found in a vacant house in Newark a few months later. West, previously described by sources as an escort, was living in Union Township at the time, and was reported missing as well. Wheeler-Weaver was also accused of attacking another 34-year-old woman who survived the attack, prosecutors say.

Ultimately, he was convicted of murder, desecrating human remains, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated arson.

Wheeler-Weaver comes from a family that includes at least two law enforcement officers -- one a cop in East Orange who, at the time of his arrest, lived in his home and another who worked for the Newark Police Department. He was most recently employed as a security guard and was assigned to a grocery store.

 

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NJ serial killer who murdered women he met for sex sentenced to 160 years

A convicted New Jersey serial killer who used dating apps to lure his victims during a 2016 murder spree was sentenced to 160 years in prison Wednesday.

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NJ serial killer who murdered women he met for sex sentenced to 160 years​

By
Jesse O’Neill


October 7, 2021 12:42am
Updated

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver arrives in the courtroom, where he was sentenced to 160 years in prison for serial killings. AP

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A convicted New Jersey serial killer who used dating apps to lure his victims during a 2016 murder spree was sentenced to 160 years in prison Wednesday.
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 25, told the court he was framed for the murders of three women, but sat still as a state judge handed down the sentence in Newark.
Family members of victims Robin West and Sarah Butler read emotional statements before Wheeler-Weaver learned his fate for the three killings, one attempted murder and counts of kidnapping, aggravated arson and desecration of human remains.
Tiffany Taylor, who survived an attack by the killer, shared her trauma with the courtroom.
“My whole life is different; I don’t wear makeup anymore; I don’t have friends. I’m always paranoid. But I’m happy to still be here,” Taylor said.
“I hope you don’t show him any remorse, because he’s not showing any remorse,” she pleaded with Superior Court Judge Mark S. Ali.
Superior Court Judge Mark S. Ali handed Khalil Wheeler-Weaver a 160-year sentence.AP
Wheeler-Weaver strangled three woman after meeting them for sex online and dumped their bodies in northern New Jersey between September and December 2016, prosecutors said.
“The defendant believed these victims were disposable. They were killed and then he went on about his day as if nothing had happened,” Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Adam Wells said. “But each of these women’s lives mattered.”
Investigators credited friends of Butler, a college student, for using social media to set up a fake account to bait Wheeler-Weaver and lure him to Montclair.
West’s mother, Anita Mason, remembered her 19-year-old daughter as full of promise.
The Philadelphia woman got into a car with Wheeler-Weaver hours before she was murdered and dumped in an abandoned house in the city of Orange that the killer set on fire, the court found.
Aliyah wears a shirts with Sarah Butler’s picture as she gives a victim impact statement during the sentencing of Khalil Wheeler-Weaver.AP
“I will never forget her smile, her face, her walk, her desire to help homeless people,” Mason said Wednesday. “The world focuses on the last month of her life. She had a whole entire life before her demise. Hundreds of people were affected by her life and were saddened by her death.”
Newark resident Joanne Brown, 33, was strangled by Wheeler-Weaver less than two months later, and her body was also dumped in an abandoned Orange house.
Butler, 20, disappeared around Thanksgiving 2016 and her body was later found in a wooded area.
Her father, Victor, turned to Wheeler-Weaver in court and delivered a personal message.
“I hope you suffer, boy, every night.”