Michelle Lodzinski Found Guilty Of Killing 5-Year-Old Son In New Jersey

Timothy Wiltsey's mother was found guilty of his murder Wednesday, 25 years after he was killed.

A jury of seven men and five women convicted Michelle Lodzinski after eight weeks of testimony.

The jury deliberated a little less than four hours after nj.com reported the foreman was replaced Tuesday with an alternate because of a personal matter.

Lodzinski's trial was to began two years after she was arrested even though she was long considered the prime suspect since the boy went missing from a Sayreville carnival in May 1991.

"He was excited," she said of Timothy Wiltsey's state of mind, according to a tape of her police interview.

Soon after, Timothy was found dead.

Wiltsey's remains were found in a marshy area in Raritan Center in Edison, about five miles from where he disappeared, nearly a year after his disappearance.

After the murder, Lodzinski moved to Florida, got remarried and had even more children, according to My9 Chasing NJ.

After Lodzinski originally told police that she last saw her son at a carnival in Middlesex County, the investigation turned up that no one can confirm that they ever saw the little boy at the fair.

Her attorney, Gerald Krovatin was expected to argue that this case should have been brought more than two decades ago, but the Middlesex County Prosecuto's Office says there is new evidence, according to the nj.com report.

Here is how nj.com recalled the trial:

Jurors sat through eight weeks of testimony and heard from 68 witnesses, including retired police officers, ex-neighbors and boyfriends and an Arizona ex-con who testified that a former cellmate told him he had killed a young boy at an event in New Jersey in 1991.

Prosecutors based their case on a child's blanket found nearby. Former babysitters say the blanket came from the Lodzinski home, but no forensic evidence was found linking it to Lodzinski or her son, according to the report.

Lodzinski has said Timothy disappeared while she went to buy soda and that he was taken by two people, and that a woman in a red car abducted him at knifepoint, according to the report.