Just a mile away from the scene of Sonia's death, another woman was found dead in her apartment. But the police didn't have a whole lot of leads, and the case didn't progress. The John Doe responsible would eventually be charged with double homicide (because Sonia had been six months pregnant) along with sexual assault. Inside, he found Sonia stripped and strangled to death on the bed, a wire around her neck and Cheetos dust on her breast. Outside, he found a Coke bottle and a bag of Cheetos by the door. This witness saw him talk to 29-year-old Sonia Mejia outside her apartment building then smack her head and force her in with him, but the witness didn't report the incident soon enough to do any good. On February 9, 2006, a witness spotted the man in Taylorsville, Utah, carrying a bottle of Coke and a bag of unidentified snack food. Or, more likely, most of us would never have heard of the case so wouldn't know him by any name whatever, but if we did know him by a name, it would have been The Cheetos Killer. But I’m just happy to still be here and be able to tell what happened so that he could be locked up for it.If the following tale concerned just one murder, perhaps we would forever know the man responsible as The Cheetos Killer. Taylor said that since the attack, she does not do her hair or use makeup and does not have or want friends. Taylor was able to slip one hand from the handcuffs and then escape when she locked her hotel room door, leaving Mr. Wheeler-Weaver had handcuffed her, put duct tape around her head and had started to cover her nose and mouth, Judge Ali said. Wheeler-Weaver at his home and recognized him when he assaulted her.ĭuring the attack, Mr. Butler was killed, pointed out that she had previously met Mr.
Taylor, who was kidnapped and assaulted by Mr. “I have clear and convincing evidence that I was set up, I was lied on and I was framed by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.ĭuring the hearing, Ms. Wheeler-Weaver, reading from a sheet of paper, maintained his innocence. “He thought all of the victims eventually would be forgotten.” Wheeler-Weaver in Superior Court in Essex County on Wednesday. “He thought all of the victims would not be noticed,” Judge Mark S. Her remains were so badly charred that she had to be identified with dental records. 1, 2016, he set fire to her body and torched an abandoned house where he had left her, the authorities said.
Her body was found in Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange on Dec. Wheeler-Weaver strangled her, the authorities said. Wheeler-Weaver on Tagged, a social networking site, where he went by the name LilYachtRock.Īfter she borrowed her mother’s minivan to meet him on Nov. Butler was a student at New Jersey City University when she began talking to Mr. “It’s a testament to their love of their friend and sister.” “They really did go above and beyond what people often do,” he said in an interview. Wheeler-Weaver, giving detectives “a big early break” in the investigation. Butler’s sister and friends with orchestrating the first in-person meeting between the Montclair police and Mr. Wells of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, the lead prosecutor in the case, credited Ms. All four were attacked from August to November in 2016.Īdam B. Butler, 20 Robin West, 19, of Union Township and Joanne Brown, 33, of Newark and for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and attempting to murder Tiffany Taylor.
Wheeler-Weaver, 25, was sentenced to 160 years in prison for murdering Ms. On Wednesday, nearly five years later, Mr.
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