Here are the inmates serving a life sentence in New Jersey

By Paige Gross | For NJ.com

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Out of the thousands of inmates serving sentences in New Jersey state prisons at any time, most will spend about six years of their lives behind bars.

But a handful of current offenders — much less than 1 percent of the state’s 19,453 inmates — were sentenced to life, and will never be set free, according to the Department of Correction's 2018 statistics.

Inmates from 14 of New Jersey’s counties are currently serving "true" life sentences. They are ineligible for parole, and will serve their sentence until they die.

Bergen, Burlington, Cape May, Hunterdon, Salem, Sussex and Warren counties don’t currently have any inmates serving a life sentence, and the state has no women on the list either.

Most men are serving life sentences for violent offenses like murder or aggravated assault, but New Jersey’s three-strike’s law, which mandates stricter punishments for offenders with prior convictions for certain violent offenses, means some are serving the rest of their life on charges like theft or robbery.

Editor's Note: The list of inmates in this story was provided by the N.J. Department of Corrections. This story was updated July 24, 2018 with additional information.

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Atlantic County

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Lloyd Massey, 38

Massey was sentenced to life in prison in June of 2002 for three counts of murder, one count of criminal attempted homicide, weapons charges and tampering with evidence. He is ineligible for parole.

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Rafael Olmo, 35

Olmo was sentenced in 2014 for murdering a 36-year-old Hackensack man in December of 2010. He had previous murder charges against him for paying a man to kill a witness to another shooting in which he had been indicted for.

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Brian Wakefield, 41

Wakefield has been service a life sentence since 2004 for killing an elderly couple in 2001. He confessed to the murders of Richard and Shirley Hazard during a home invasion and then setting their house on fire.

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Camden County

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Jessie Sepulveda, 42

Sepulveda was sentenced in 2008 for the killing of a 12-year-old boy in Camden. Sepulveda and another man encountered the boy on the steps of his home listening to the radio when Sepulveda fired 10 shots at him. He had previously been convicted in 1998 for separate robbery and endangering the welfare of a child charges.

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Carlos Alicea-Antinetti, 40

Alicea-Antinetti has been serving a life sentence since February 2018 for the kidnapping and murder of 41-year-old Fatima Perez, a mother of two. Parez was found buried in Monroe Township and a medical examiner determined she was likely buried while still alive.

Alicea-Antonetti, who owned a landscaping company, said he and one of his employees tied Perez up and placed duct tape over her mouth and eyes before driving her to a wooded area in Monroe, pouring lime over her and burying her alive.

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Steven Alicea, 25

Alicea has been serving a life sentence since 2016 for a one-night spree where he murdered, raped and performed an armed robbery. Alicea and his accomplice shot and killed a woman during a robbery attempt, then entered a home and raped a woman and robbed a man.

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Cumberland County

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James Royal, 36

Royal was sentenced to life in prison in November 2009 for the shooting death of two teenage sisters on Church Street in Bridgeton. One was his ex-girlfriend and mother of their child. He was also facing a 17-year sentence for a separate kidnapping incident the day before the fatal shootings.

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Ryan Samuel, 46

Samuel has been serving his sentence since 1997 for multiple charges of robbery, aggravated assault and weapons possession.

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Latimar Byrdsell, 35

Byrdsell was sentenced in 2013 for killing and sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl in 2006. The jury found that Byrdsell smothered 3-year-old A'brianna Thomas, resulting in her death while he was sexually assaulting her.

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Jamie Wallace, 49

Wallace serving his sentence for multiple robbery counts, eluding substantial risk and resisting arrest. The conviction stems from charges of holding up three Vineland Wawa convenience stores in under three hours in April of 2007. He had previous convictions.

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Essex County

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Abdul-haqq Salaam, 67

Salaam was sentenced in August 1986 on counts of Robbery by bodily injury or force, weapons possession and robbery.

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Rolando Terell, 46

Terell has been serving his sentence since 2011 on charges include murder, felony murder, arson, robbery and weapons offenses. Terell went to rob a house of a family friend who he knew had been selling drugs. Once inside, he shot dead four people — one woman and three teens — then burned the house down.

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Kalim Rajhn, 61

Rajhn has been imprisoned since May of 2001. He serving a life sentence for an robbing incident in 2000.

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Condell Woodson, 45

Woodson has been serving a life sentence since 1999 for shooting and killing police officer Joyce Carnegie while he was being arrested. Woodson attempted to get his conviction overturned, but a two-judge panel noted that he told his mother in the presence of investigators that he did in fact kill Carnegie and wrote to a friend in prison to arrange the killing of relatives to whom he also confessed.

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Roy Dove, 56

Dove has been serving a life sentence since 1998 on charges of murder, robbery and weapons possession.

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Rasheed Muhammad, 52

Muhammad is serving his sentence for the murder of an 8-year-old girl in 1995 in Newark. Police discovered Muhammad in an apartment he sometime squatted in with 8-year-old Jakiyah McClain dead under a pile of clothing.

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Malik Shakur, 51

Shakur has been serving his sentence since 2012. He was convicted on charges of robbery, theft, resisting arrest, drug distribution and conspiracy to commit robbery or carjacking.

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Ali Brown, 33

Brown has been serving a life sentence since 2016 for the slaying of 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin. Brown told Essex County homicide detectives how he dressed in military fatigues, covered his face and head with an Arab battle scarf and hid in the bushes at a West Orange intersection waiting for what in his mind was the right person to "ambush" and kill.

Brown shot Tevlin while he was waiting at a red light. He is also charged with three homicides in his home state of Washington, committed, police say, in the months before Tevlin was shot. The terrorism charge stems from his statements to police and his writings in a journal.

Brown told investigators the murders were done in the name of “vengeance for the actions of the United States in the Middle East.”

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Gloucester County

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Sean Padraic Kenney, 47

Kenney was sentenced in March 1996 on two counts of murder and multiple weapons and robbery charges.

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Hudson County

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Shawn Barrett, 50

Barrett has been serving his sentence since 2016 for the kidnapping and rape of a Bayonne woman in his Jersey City apartment in 2013. Barrett, a county mail employee at the time of the crime, was convicted for persuading the woman to his apartment, striking her, and raping her at knifepoint. He was given a sentence of life without parole for having a history of violent crimes; he had previously served sentences for his role in a 1992 murder and two counts of robbery in 1987.

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Mercer County

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Ambrose Harris, 66

Harris was sentenced to life July 1994, on charges of murder, weapons, credit card theft, two counts of robbery, aggravated sexual assault, kidnaping and terroristic threats. He not eligible for parole. In 1999, he beat to death another inmate who was on death row for killing a cop.

Harris was initially given a death sentence for the 1992 kidnapping and murder of Pennsylvania artist Kristin Higgins, 22, in Trenton, but all prisoners were removed from death row in 2007. He’s had a had a long history of assaulting guards and inmates.

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Jesse Timmendequas, 57

Timmendequas was sentenced in 1997 for kidnapping, murdering and raping 7-year-old Megan Kanka in Hamilton. Kanka's killing drove lawmakers to create the offender notification known better known as Megan's Law.

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Middlesex County

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Steven Fortin, 53

Fortin was sentenced in February of 2001 for the 1994 killing of 25-year-old Melissa Padilla, a mother of four. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole when the death penalty ended in New Jersey in 2007. He is also serving sentences for assaults and rapes he committed in Maine.

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Kevin Vauters, 25

Vauters was sentenced in October 2013 for a January 2012 murder and robbery of 26-year-old Eugene Lockhart. Vauters was a member of the Bloods street gang and was 19 years old when he committed the crime. During the investigation, Vauters lied to police during questioning and approached three witnesses. He also faced charges of witness tampering and weapons possession.

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Curtis R Jones, 34

Jones was sentenced in December 2012 for fatally shooting his cousin during a failed robbery in New Brunswick in 2011. A jury deliberated for 90 minutes before convicting Jones of murder, felony murder, armed robbery, weapons offenses and hindering police, following a nine-day long trial.

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Nathaniel Harvey, 68

Harvey was sentenced to death in 1994 on one count of murder. At the time of his death sentence, he was serving a separate sentence in Mercer County for armed burglary, armed robbery, kidnapping and receiving stolen property. Harvey's sentence was reduced to life without parole after New Jersey's move to abolish the death penalty in 2007. Harvey has made multiple appeals, and one court has granted the inmate a third trial.

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Raymond Troxell, 58

Troxell was sentenced to life in prison in 2010 for hiring someone to kill his business partner. Troxell and Vincent Russo owned a deli in North Brunswick when Russo was shot to death in the business' office. Troxell faced a mandatory sentence of life without parole after the jury that convicted him also found the presence of an aggravating factor, that he paid for the killing.

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Frank Marsh, 54

Marsh is serving his sentence for being paid to shoot to Raymond Troxell's business partner. Marsh was hired and paid $3,000 to shoot Vincent Russo in the head at their Deli in New Brunswick. Court papers show that the pair often fought over financial matters, and in 2008, Troxell and Marsh were at a bar when Troxell said he wanted his partner killed.

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Boris Boretsky, 68

Boretsky has been serving his sentence since 2006 for then murder of if his 41-year-old estranged wife, Saoule "Lana" Moujhametova in their home in Monmouth Junction. Boretsky had been jailed for beating his wife in 2002, and after she filed a restraining order, Boretsky waited outside the couple's farmhouse for his estranged wife to arrive, chased her inside when she ran, and stabbed her from behind with an 8-inch knife.

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Monmouth County

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Marco Bey, 53

Bey was sentenced in December 1983 on multiple counts of murder and aggravated sexual assault. He also faced robbery and kidnapping charges and was was the longest-serving prisoner on death row when it was abolished officially in 2007.

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Antonio Suarez-Perez, 30

Suarez-Parez was sentenced in August 2012 for a cocaine theft turned murder. He was identified as the shooter of two men, and was sentenced along with two others. Suarez-Parez was also sentenced on courts of weapons possession and tampering with evidence. He does not have a possibility of parole.

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Daniel Galliano, 49

Galliano was sentenced for one count of robbery in Monmouth county in 2003. He was already serving 14 years for incidents in Middlesex county for drug possession and robbery when he was sentenced to life.

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David Cooper, 47

Cooper has been serving a life sentence since May of 1995. He was sentenced for two counts of murder, one count of kidnapping and two sexual assault charges from incidents 1995. The charges stem from the rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl that he committed after being released from a four-year prison sentence for a drug conviction.

He was first sentenced to death, but his sentenced was commuted to life in prison without parole with the abolition of the death penalty in 2007.

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Frank Padro, 56

Padro was sentenced to life in February 2005 on robbery, terroristic threats, and multiple weapons charges.

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Ivan Lopez, 69

Lopez was sentenced in January 2014 for one count of robbery. He was charged after using a kitchen knife to hold up a victim at an auto shop, and claimed he had a gun.

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Adam Bienkowski, 59

Bienkowski has been serving his since 2016. He was already serving a 35-year sentence for murder for beating his neighbor to death with a hammer in 2012 when he was found guilty for robbing and killing a supermarket employee in 2013.

Bienkowski was found guilty of robbing 56-year-old Michael Wells as he was going into work at a Long Branch grocery store, hitting him in the back of the head and stealing his cash. Wells then chased after Beinkowski, who shot and killed Wells with a stolen gun.

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Rosario Miraglia, 46

Miraglia has been serving his sentence since 2008 for killing and dismembering his grandmother and ex-girlfriend. He told the jury he was on a religious mission when he killed the women in 2004.

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Marc Jordan, 47

Jordan has been serving his sentence since 1999 on multiple charges of robbery, theft, terroristic threats and weapons possession. He was sentenced to separate crimes in Ocean county as well in 2001.

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Morris County

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Jose Feliciano, 73

Feliciano was a church custodian for 20 years when he killed Rev. Edward Hinds at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Chatham. He admitted to stabbing Hinds 44 times inside the rectory after he was fired in October 2009. P

rosecutors said Feliciano had an arrest warrant in Philadelphia from the 1980s for sexually touching a child and had used aliases and fake IDs in the past to hide it. Feliciano alleged during the trial that Hinds had been blackmailing him for years by forcing him to perform sex acts in exchange for him keeping the criminal charges quiet, and that his attack was provoked.

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Porfirio Jimenez, 53

Jimenez has been serving a life sentence since 2009 for the murder of a 10-year-old boy, whom he abducted from a Morristown park and beat to death with a gardening tool after trying to rape him.

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Omar Thomas, 41

Thomas has been serving his sentence since 2008 for killing two video game store employees in 2002. Thomas and his cousin, who was 14 at the time, robbed and shot 21-year-old Jeff Eresman and 26-year-old Erik Rewoldt and fled with $10,000 in merchandise.

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Ocean County

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Dwayne Gillispie, 37

Gillispie was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison on multiple counts of murder, assault, burglary and weapons possession.

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Richard Toledo, 33

Toledo was sentenced in March 2008, for counts of kidnapping and murder. He bludgened to death two brothers ages 7 and 14, and kidnapped their mother. He was an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was attempting to rob the family. He was supposedly drunk at the time of his crimes.

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Gregory Bartholomew, 55

Bartholomew has been serving a life sentence since 2001 on counts of robbery and weapons possession. In 2013, he was also convicted of attempting to bribe guards in the prison with smuggled tobacco.

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Anthony Montgomery, 47

Montgomery has been serving his sentence since 2010 for charges of weapons possession, assault, inflicting harm on a law enforcement animal, and carjacking. While detained in Monmouth County Jail, he assaulted two officers in two separate incidents.

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Jahmell Crockam, 27

Crockam has been serving his sentence since 2012 for killing police officer Christopher Matlosz. The officer had pulled his car over to speak with Crockam. After a short conversation, Crockam shot him three times at point-blank range.

While he was serving a sentence for that conviction, he also pleaded guilty to the murder of Justin Williams, who had been shot five times in the head and once in the chest.

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Passaic County

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Fernando Chireno, 42

Chireno was sentenced in 2010 for killing his estranged 26-year-old wife Luisa Chireno with an ax in 2008. Prosecutors said during the trial that Fernando Chireno broke into his wife's apartment and chased her outside while their three children hid in a bedroom. He struck her 15 times before she collapsed in the street.

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David Baylor, 39

Baylor has been imprisoned since 2006 for slaying four people in a Paterson after-hours club in 2005. Authorities said the four people were shot in the head during a robbery at the Kings Court club, which was set up as part of an FBI stiong to investigate weapons and drug trafficking by the Latin Kings gang.

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Somerset County

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Charles Cullen, 58

Cullen was convicted and sentenced in 2006 on multiple counts of murder. While working as a nurse in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he admitted to killing between 30 and 45 patients over the course of 16 years at seven hospitals. He is serving a life sentence as part of an agreement with prosecutors to help them identify his victims.

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Michael Mitchell, 35

Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison in Somerset county, but also committed crimes in Burlington and Middlesex counties. He was sentenced in May 2014 for a string of January 2012 armed robberies.

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Union County

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Darrell Blount, 51

Blount was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in June 2011. He faced one count of robbery, and two weapons charges.

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Arthur Ellison, 61

Ellison has been serving his sentence since December 2001 on charges of aggravated assault, robbery and weapons possession.

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Frances Akturik, 39

Akturik was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for raping and killing his neighbor, then smothering her two young children during a botched robbery in 2002. Authorities said the incident began as a robbery of an Elizabeth apartment in 2002 and ended with three bodies piled in a blood-soaked bathtub.

Akurik first killed 32-year-old Majuly Collins, then 4-year-old Eduardo and 18-month-old Catherine Almanza were both smothered with sofa cushions. A judge in Elizabeth handed down three consecutive life sentences for the crimes.

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Jalonn Lassiter, 38

Lassiter has been serving his sentence since 2004 for the murder of a used car salesman during a drug deal in Elizabeth in 2004. Lassiter had already pleaded guilty and was serving a long sentence for various charges relating to an armed home invasion and sexual assault on a group of Rutgers students also in 2004.

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Timothy Chambers, 51

Chambers has been serving his sentence since 2018 for a 2015 robbery of a car wash owner. Chambers asked the manager for $3 in change and followed the manager into the car wash office. He then tried to wrestle a money bag away from him, eventually hitting the manager in the head with a gun.

Chambers had an extensive criminal history and because of that he qualified under the state's three strikes law for a life sentence.

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