A sick Lengthy Island music trainer plotted for practically a decade to kill and rape his faculty coed sister-in-law – and even practiced the chokehold he would use, prosecutors stated Wednesday.
Joseph Horner, 27, repeatedly broke into the downstairs residence of 25-year-old Victoria Citadel to take a look at “specific pictures” of his spouse’s sister earlier than finishing up the grotesque June 28 assault, Nassau County prosecutors stated as they unsealed a homicide indictment in opposition to Horner.
“He adopted by way of on his plan that he admits he had been planning since 2017,” Assistant District Lawyer Alexander DePalo stated in courtroom. “He’s seen on video practising the chokehold that he would place her in.
“He positioned her within the chokehold, eliminated her clothes and raped the sufferer till he accomplished,” DePalo stated. “Then he waited for the police on the entrance doorstep, calm and picked up.”
Horner’s spouse, who had been away on a bachelorette journey on the time, sat in courtroom sobbing Wednesday, comforted by her mother and father as her husband pleaded not responsible.
The accused killer, a music trainer on the Oceanside College District, was ordered held with out bail by Nassau County Decide Howard Sturim.
Citadel, a PhD scholar at Stony Brook College, lived downstairs from Horner and her sister within the North Oak Road dwelling in North Massapequa.
Prosecutors stated the accused killer lured her to her dying by asking her to assist him transfer a keyboard – however as an alternative ambushed her from behind and allegedly carried out the assault.
Simply quarter-hour earlier than the alleged assault, Horner practiced the chokehold on a stuffed animal – and even took a FaceTime name from his spouse after rendering her unconscious, performing as if every part was regular earlier than he proceeded to rape his sister-in-law, prosecutors stated.
“He answered like nothing was fallacious,” Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly stated. “He acted like he hadn’t simply left her sister mendacity on a mattress.”
Horner is charged with first-degree and second-degree homicide, and two counts for first-degree rape, and faces life in jail with out parole if convicted.
