UPDATE: Homicide Alleged in Case of North Middletown Woman Found Dead After Fire
Lynn Moretti 40, died in a fire at her home in North Middletown on Tuesday.
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The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office has released the name of the woman whose body was found in a charred house following a fire on Tuesday, and announced the case is being investigated as a homicide.
According to Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Marc LeMieux, the woman who was found dead in the charred bungalow at 160 Jersey Avenue was Lynn Moretti, 40, of Middletown.
He declined to provide further details in the case, saying his office is still working on its final report. "The case is being investigated as a homicide," LeMieux said Thursday afternoon.
On Friday, he said the fire is being investigated as "suspicious."
The fire was reported to police on Tuesday at 1:30 a.m. The small street was filled with ambulances and fire engines battling the blaze for several house on the densely occupied block, facing Route 36.
In an interview with Patch later that day, next door neighbor David Echeverria said he was awakened by a "loud bang, like firecrackers" and fire trucks in front of his home in the dark of night. "I was pretty scared when I saw the saw flames shooting out of the house," he said, looking at the burned out house just a few feet away from his. "They were as tall as that tree behind the house."
He grabbed his dog Oatmeal and pounded on his grandfather Wilfredo Gonzalez's door, who lives next to him on the other side. Together they directed a hose onto David's house, but the heat of the fire melted portions of the siding on his house, and on the other neighboring house.
Echeverria said his grandmother Gloria Gonzalez saw a body taken out of the house around 4:30 a.m.
He said he did not know the woman who rented the house at 160 Jersey very well.
This story was updated at 5 p.m. Thursday with the name of the victim and the information it is being investigated as a homicide.
Check back for more details as they become available.
MiddletownResident
2:12 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
RIP Lynn
Veronica
3:51 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
So sad.. RIP
Amanda N Rivera
4:53 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
U will in peace...xoxoxoxo
denise sininsky
7:29 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
My heart goes out to the victim's family of this very sad tragedy. Nobody deserves this.Prayers for her & family.
MiddletownResident
9:24 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Truth will be told on what happened
george
6:45 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
I' d.like to.hear this one!
christine
10:42 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
We'd all like to hear the TRUTH on what happened..Why dont you enlighten us??
MiddletownResident
5:08 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
told ya
white trash m. miller
5:12 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
yeah! enlighten us all please. I know a few detectives here.
Bagodoughnuts
6:41 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
There's a lot of rumors out there.Some believed to be true. Just let her rest in peace!
Bayratt
10:04 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Everyone in the aera has an "idea" what happened.
Bayratt
10:05 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Google her name... she was arrested 5 times in the past year
NJarhead
8:12 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
And that means what exactly?
MiddletownResident
7:51 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure it was fishy....cop guarding the house HOURS upon HOURS after it was all said and done...being hush hush and declining to answer questions but sayin it was a ongoing fluid investigation...and her background....just glad none of the INNOCENT neighbors died because of someone elses choices...but I am the bad guy for calling it out lol
MiddletownResident
8:03 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
and Mike Young I love your screen name...White Trash M. Miller lol real creative <wink> truth hurts I guess....dont be mad at me.....she caused her death, I didn't..I'm not in a drug crowd...am sure her drug friends know more, they are the ones opening their mouths the second it happened...word being spread on the streets in our town has proven to be right
NJarhead
8:10 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
I can't believe it. I'm so sorry Lynn. Rest in Peace. Prayers from my family to yours.
MiddletownResident
9:04 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
No pitty or sympathy from me...her family lost her a long time ago to the drug life...I'm not selfish, I would never put my kid or my family and friends through that crap....Yes I have anger towards drug addicts, they RUIN Lives of others as well as their own...I know MANY Kids who are all messed up mentally due to the choices their "Parents" make to do and sell drugs and die as a direct result of them...now u people feel sorry for the kids cause now she died?? what about beforehand? Wake up people love your children and be responsible adults...I am sick and tired of my kids friends not having parents because of drugs....and alot of them speak of it in a manner of hey it's normal it's no big deal...IT'S NOT NORMAL
NJarhead
9:18 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
Your points are all valid, but does any of us really need to know whether or not Lynn gets sympathy from you? At the end of the day, who do you think really cares about who Michelle M. Miller gives sympathy towards? You're right! Drugs ruin lives! But what you fail to realize is that when folks get caught up in drug use, they cease to be the person they were. I knew Lynn and I've always thought she was a good soul. Sadly, she's not the first good person I've known who couldn't release themselves from their addiction and I DO have sympathy for her.
bogo
9:37 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
Hey miller! do us all a favor regardless of what u think u no or what u wish u want to believe. You should keeP ur comments to yourself . This is not the Place to stomp on someone who can't defend them selves . Old saying" u don't have something nice to say then SHUT UP" & go back to taking care of your Snail farm
bogo
9:40 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
My thoughts & prayers go out to your family .
You will be missed
R . I . P