A newly launched court docket doc revealed disturbing particulars a few string of crimes that resulted in a standoff at a New Jersey house earlier this month, together with that one girl concerned took pictures with a person’s dismembered corpse.
Elizabeth C. Mascarelli, 29, was charged on July 13 with offenses together with hindering apprehension and desecration of human stays, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Workplace mentioned. Mascarelli allegedly helped Maxwell Johnston, 35, disguise for a number of days contained in the Toms River, New Jersey house the place she was dwelling, after Johnson killed his girlfriend, 25-year-old Gabriella Caroleo, JHB beforehand reported.
Mascarelli was arrested after a July 5 police standoff, together with three alleged accomplices: Danielle Bolstad, 42, Jared Krysiak, 34, and Jarred Palumbo, 36. Johnston killed himself earlier than he may very well be taken into custody, authorities mentioned.
As authorities investigated Caroleo’s loss of life, they found the stays of one other individual in a separate house in Jackson ― 56-year-old Kerry Rollason, who owned the house Johnson was hiding in. Rollason’s physique had been dismembered and stuffed into baggage.
Residence the place police believed Kerry Rollason was dismembered by way of Google Maps
A forensic search of Mascarelli’s telephone revealed pictures of her and Johnston subsequent to a “clearly deceased” Rollason, whose legs had been amputated, in response to the newly launched arrest affidavit. The image exhibits Mascarelli holding a hatchet within the physique’s chest, per the affidavit.
Further photographs found throughout the search present Mascarelli, Johnston, and Bolstad in a wooded space. In a single, Johnston holds a big ax and an “energetic” burn barrel is seen behind him, in response to the affidavit. An unspecified merchandise with doable bloodstains could be seen protruding from the barrel.
Palumbo advised detectives that he was within the basement of Rollason’s house on July 3 with Krysiak when he heard three gunshots coming from outdoors, in response to the affidavit. Johnston got here into the basement shortly after, telling the 2 they wanted to go away the home instantly.
Upon leaving the basement, Palumbo noticed that Rollason was useless, in response to the affidavit. Krysiak, Palumbo, Bolstad, Mascarelli and Johnston allegedly left the house, solely to return shortly afterward to care for the physique.
Palumbo mentioned Johnston, Mascarelli and Krysiaki lower off Rollason’s limbs after which requested him to convey “a number of baggage” up from the basement and cargo them into Bolstad’s automobile, in response to the affidavit.
The medical expert mentioned Rollason’s physique was dismembered into eight separate items, in response to the affidavit. His reason behind loss of life was a number of gunshot wounds and blunt power trauma.
Bolstad traveled to the world of a home in Jackson, New Jersey, on the day Rollason was killed, in response to telephone information cited within the affidavit. Authorities who searched that home discovered a burn barrel close to the property and gloves much like these worn by Mascarelli and Johnston within the pictures, in response to the affidavit. The barrel was stained with human blood, and a knife was inside it.
A search of the world discovered quite a lot of physique elements in black baggage and wrapped in blankets, a number of 9mm rounds, a noticed and the hatchet Mascarelli was seen holding within the pictures, in response to the affidavit.
Prosecutors mentioned at a listening to on Wednesday that Johnston had been a member of the Bloods avenue gang, however didn’t specify a particular motive for her alleged involvement in Rollason’s loss of life. Mascarelli’s public defender claimed she had a historical past of habit and was afraid of Johnson, and Bolstad’s defender mentioned she was within the flawed place on the flawed time, in response to NJPatch.