NYC man pleads guilty to gruesome murder of his own mom for her fortune
A Tribeca man admitted Friday he brutally beat and slashed his mom’s throat to get his fingers on his inheritance.
Jared Eng, 25, pleaded responsible to at least one depend of homicide in Manhattan Supreme Court docket as a part of a plea deal for the grisly homicide of Paula Chin, 65, in January 2019.
Eng viciously beat and slashed his mother — whom he claimed had $11 million within the financial institution — throughout a struggle in an condo they shared in Tribeca to attempt to pace up amassing his inheritance.
After the grotesque homicide, Eng sanitized the condo together with his girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. The pair then transported his mom’s stays in Chin’s personal automotive, a 2004 Toyota Land Cruiser, to the household dwelling in Morristown, NJ.
Eng’s different lover, Caitlyn O’Rourke, joined the couple in New Jersey the next Feb. 1, the place she helped stuff Chin’s physique right into a rubbish can that was left on the property.
Eng’s older brother, Brandon, reported their mother lacking and cops discovered her decomposing stays within the trash bin the subsequent day.
Investigators discovered bloody rubber gloves within the rubbish and bloodstains on the New Jersey residence’s storage flooring. Extra bloody gloves, together with blood traces, have been discovered contained in the Tribeca condo.
In a sequence of textual content messages after the homicide, Eng reported “It’s executed,” “I’m free,” and that he “removed [his] downside,” in keeping with prosecutors.
He then started altering the passwords on Chin’s financial institution accounts, looking for inheritance legal professionals and researching methods to get rid of his mother’s corpse — together with a chilling Google seek for “DIY bone meal.”
“This was a brutal and surprising homicide of the defendant’s personal mom, and whereas nothing can undo this tragedy, immediately’s responsible plea represents an vital step in the direction of justice,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg mentioned in a press release.
Lopez and O’Rourke are charged with lesser crimes, together with the concealment of a human corpse. Their circumstances are nonetheless pending.
Eng’s legal professional couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
He’s scheduled to be sentenced to a minimal of 18 years to life in jail on Oct. 18.
