Jennifer Sweeney is a convicted killer from New Jersey who was convicted of the murder of Tyrita Julius
According to court documents Jennifer Sweeney would convince a friend to murder her girlfriend Tyrita Julius. The friend would shoot multiple times into a car that Tyrita Julius was driving with her daughter. Miraculously both would survive the shooting.
However Jennifer Sweeney was not done trying to kill Tyrita Julius and it would end with her strangling the woman and burying her body in a friends backyard
Jennifer Sweeney would ultimately be arrested, convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for arranging the shooting and 75 years in prison for the actual murder
Jennifer Sweeney Now
| SBI Number: | 000309014D |
| Sentenced as: | Sweeney, Jennifer |
| Race: | Black |
| Ethnicity: | Unknown |
| Sex: | Female |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Eye Color: | Brown |
| Height: | 5’7″ |
| Weight: | 144 lbs. |
| Birth Date: | August 18, 1983 |
| Admission Date: | May 6, 2022 |
| Current Facility: | EMCF |
| Current Max Release Date: | N/A |
| Current Parole Eligibility Date: | May 14, 2097 |
Jennifer Sweeney Case
A woman who strangled her girlfriend to death and buried the body in a friend’s yard was sentenced to 95 years in prison on Friday, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office announced Saturday.
Jennifer Sweeney, a 38-year-old from Tinton Falls, solicited a friend to shoot Tyrita Julius, 41, and, when that plan failed, strangled her to death with an electrical cord.
“This sentencing is a fitting outcome to the prosecution of genuinely monstrous crimes,” said Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey. “This defendant’s actions were callous, calculated, and vicious, and ended the life of a woman beloved by her family and friends.”
In November 2015, Julius was shot eight times while driving in Linden, causing her to crash into a utility pole. Her teenage daughter who was sitting in the passenger seat was also hit.
Both survived the shooting.
Police found Julius’ remains in August 2016, five months after she was reported missing by her mother.
Her body was found wrapped in garbage bags with an electrical cord around her neck in the backyard of Andre Harris, who was later identified as the gunman in the 2015 shooting.
Harris, 38, took a plea deal that required him to testify against Sweeney.
He told the jury that Sweeney believed Harris was cheating on her and wanted her dead for the perceived betrayal.
Sweeney was sentenced to 25 years for ordering the shooting and 75 years for her role in the murder.
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Jennifer Sweeney News
New Jersey woman has been sentenced to nearly 100 years behind bars for both arranging the unsuccessful assassination of her lover and for later strangling the woman to death with an electrical cord, officials said.
A superior court judge gave Jennifer Sweeney a 95-year prison sentence in the 2016 murder and 2015 attempted murder of Tyrita Julius, 41, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office announced on Saturday. Julius was killed just months after Sweeney orchestrated a failed assassination attempt on her ex-lover’s life, Judge David F. Bauman said in court, the Asbury Park Press reported.
Sweeney was sentenced to 75 years for Julius’ slaying and an additional 20 years for the assassination attempt.
“This sentencing is a fitting outcome to the prosecution of genuinely monstrous crimes,” Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey said in a press release statement on May 7. “This defendant’s actions were callous, calculated, and vicious and ended the life of a woman beloved by her family and friends.”
Sweeney, a 38-year-old Tinton Falls woman, was found guilty in September of charges of first-degree murder, first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree attempted murder, desecration of human remains and tampering with physical evidence in Julius’ death and in the prior, failed attempt. Sweeney was also convicted on a trio of weapons’ offenses.
Andre Harris, the gunman and high school friend who Sweeney contracted to carry out the failed 2015 shooting of Julius, received a 16-year sentence for his involvement in the murder plot. Harris —who took a plea deal — had testified against Sweeney during trial.
He told investigators that Sweeney orchestrated the failed assassination attempt on Julius because she suspected Julius was cheating on her, NJ.com reported.
On Nov. 24, 2015, police officers responded to a residence in the 900 block of Middlesex Street in Linden, New Jersey after reports of a shooting. Authorities found Julius in the driver’s seat of her car, which had struck a utility pole near her home. She was shot eight times but managed to survive. Her teenage daughter also suffered a gunshot wound in the failed assassination attempt. No arrests were immediately made in the brazen shooting.
In March 2016, Julius was reported missing by her family. Julius’ mother told investigators that her daughter was with Sweeney shortly before Julius vanished.
“Authorities were told at that time that Tyrita had been spending time with a female friend in Tinton Falls the day before, but failed to return home later that evening,” the prosecutor’s statement added.
Months later, Julius’ body was found wrapped in two garbage bags in the backyard of Sweeney’s friend Harris’ Long Branch home. She had an electrical cord wrapped around her neck, prosecutors said.
Sweeney and Harris were later arrested and indicted by a Monmouth County grand jury in December 2016, according to a copy of the case’s indictment obtained by Oxygen.com.
Sweeney must serve a minimum of nearly 64 years in prison on the murder charge before she’s eligible for parole, prosecutors said. She must serve the entirety of her 20-year term on the attempted murder charges. She won’t be eligible for parole until she’s more than 100 years old, according to state laws.
Jennifer Sweeney and Harris are being held at a Monmouth County detention facility pending their transfer to a New Jersey state prison, prosecutors said.
Robin Kay Lord, Sweeney’s attorney, wasn’t immediately available for comment when contacted by Oxgyen.com on Tuesday afternoon.
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/jennifer-sweeney-sentenced-95-years-tyrita-julius-muder
