Published at 6:13 PM, January 31, 2025
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A New Jersey lady was sentenced to 25 years in jail for shooting and dismembering a guy after pleading guilty in December 2024 to exacerbated murder for his death.
Elizabeth Mascarelli was sentenced to 25 years in jail for shooting and dismembering Kerry Rollason after pleading guilty in December to worsened murder for his death. (Court Television)
Elizabeth Mascarelli, 29, provided an apology to 56-year-old Kerry Rollason’s liked ones seated in the audience at her sentencing hearing Friday.
“Nothing can validate what took place that day,” Mascarelli stated. “Nothing can genuinely explain the method I feel inside about this circumstance. The only thing I can state is that I’m sorry.”
Promoting Rollason’s household, Assistant Prosecutor Julie Peterson stated the “dreadful realities” of the case would permanently “deny” them of closure. “They are not pleased that she will ever comprehend the gravity of her actions,” Peterson stated.
Mascarelli was residing in Rollason’s Toms River home with 3 other individuals on July 3, 2024, when district attorneys think Rollason was eliminated. Mascarelli and her housemates were dealing and utilizing prohibited compounds, Peterson stated.
An examination exposed Mascarelli shot Rollason 3 times, went to McDonald’s with her housemates, then went back to your house and cut up Rollason’s body with their assistance, Peterson stated. Rollason’s remains were discovered in plastic bags on July 12 on home in surrounding Jackson Township with proof consisting of a hatchet, the district attorney stated.
An image was discovered on Mascarelli’s phone with a hatchet in his chest, Peterson stated, explaining it as a “prize image” that Mascarelli “appeared to be pleased with.”
“Frankly, the realities resemble the plot of a scary film,” Peterson stated. “One needs to suspend themselves from truth to accept that something so gruesome, so dreadful and inhumane, might occur right here in Toms River in Ocean County, New Jersey.”
Mascarelli was detained on July 5, 2024, after a police standoff at Rollason’s home. Detectives didn’t understand at the time that Rollason was dead– police had actually appeared at your house searching for another individual, Maxwell Johnston, who was a suspect in his sweetheart’s murder. Throughout the standoff, the district attorney stated Mascarelli and Johnston utilized social networks to share images and videos of themselves taking part in sex and of Mascarelli kissing and licking Johnston’s gun.
The examination exposed that Mascarelli welcomed Johnston into Rollason’s home understanding he was a fugitive for the murder of sweetheart Gabriella Caroleo, Peterson stated. Mascarelli acknowledged Caroleo in her declaration, stating she felt “remorse” and “sadness” for her and her household.
Mascarelli and Johnston conspired to eliminate Rollason, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, and eliminate his body with the assistance of the others residing in the home. Private investigators figured out that Danielle Bolstad and Jared Krysiak assisted dismember Rollason’s body, which Mascarelli, Bolstad, Krysiak and Jared Palumbo assisted get rid of the body. Bolstad and Krysiak pleaded guilty to desecration of human remains and Palumbo pleaded guilty to impeding apprehension.
Johnston eliminated himself in Rollason’s home before police reached him, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Mascarelli’s legal representative stated in Friday’s sentencing that Johnston held Mascarelli and others hostage in the home, threatening them with a gun.
“I do not indicate to recommend that even the terrible and coercive scenarios produced by Maxwell Johnston at the Rollason home validate my customer’s conduct,” the defense lawyer stated. “I merely recommend, Judge, that before you enforce sentence in this case that you think about that in what is definitely an uncommon case, an unsightly case … Elizabeth Mascarelli is likewise a victim.”
In releasing his sentence, Ocean County Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan noted he had actually come across Mascarelli before in an unassociated drug case. He sentenced her to prison time in 2022 for an offense that she was on probation for when she eliminated Rollason.
“Probationary treatment today is typically created to permit somebody to acquire drug abuse treatment in order to have the ability to ideally get tidy and remain tidy. Therein lies the issue with constantly dealing with these drug offenses as non-violent offenses that permit early release and lax probationary terms till they end up being violent. And the accused’s usage of drugs definitely didn’t avoid her from acting recklessly under scenarios manifesting an indifference to human life,” the judge stated.
Ryan stated it was to Mascarelli’s credit that she pleaded guilty so right after being charged, sparing the victim’s household the experience of a trial. Eventually, he discovered it did not function as an element that required leniency in sentencing offered the nature of the criminal offense and her comprehensive criminal history.
“It would be unreasonable to the general public, the victims, and society,” Ryan stated. “Therefore, I sentence her to 25 years.”
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