Man Found Guilty For 2015 Barnegat Light Murder

BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. — A jury found Conrad R. Sipa guilty Thursday of murdering a retired FDNY lieutenant in 2015 in Barnegat Light. Sipa is scheduled to be sentenced June 14 and faces life in prison for the murder of Richard P. Doody, Jr., according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.

The jury deliberated for about two hours following the two-week trial. They also determined Sipa employed deadly weaponry, specifically a knife and a lamp, in the murder. His charges include two counts of unlawful weapons possession, hindering his apprehension or prosecution and tampering with evidence, the OCPO said.

Doody was found beaten to death with his throat slashed in 2015 in his Long Beach Island vacation home, officials said. He was struck so hard with a golf club that the graphite neck of the club split, and his neck was severed "so severely that his trachea was cut through and through," Assistant Prosecutor Meghan O'Neill said.

Sipa, of Colts Neck, also returned to the home several times to clean up Doody's body, according to authorities. O'Neill said Sipa's fingerprints were found in Doody's bloody home. Sipa's E-Z Pass records show he went to Doody's home before and after the murder, she said.

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