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Suspect arrested in murders of man, nanny found dead at suburban New Jersey home
Sunday, August 4, 2019 11:20AM
MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey (WABC) -- Police have made an arrest in the killings of a man and a live-in nanny who worked with his family in New Jersey.
26-year-old Karen Bermudez-Rodriguez of Maplewood, was found lying in the street on Walton Road near Jefferson Avenue in Maplewood around 6:00 a.m. Saturday, after police responded to a report of a woman being assaulted.
She was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Medical Center.
Officers then found the body of 40-year-old David Kimowitz of Maplewood inside a home nearby.
After an investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force and the Maplewood Police Department, 27-year-old Joseph Porter was charged in connection with the deaths.
Authorities said he had been dating Bermudez-Rodriguez, who was employed as an au pair for the Kimowitz family,
Porter is charged with two counts of murder, possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and criminal restraint. He is being held in the Essex County Correctional Facility.