Montclair Student's Accused Killer May Have Slain 2 Women In Orange: Prosecutor

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — An Essex County man accused of murdering local college student Sarah Butler has been indicted for allegedly killing two other women and kidnapping a fourth, authorities say.

According to a Monday statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange has been indicted on three counts of murder in connection with the deaths of three women between Sept. 1 and Nov. 22 in 2016.

Wheeler-Weaver has been charged with killing 20-year-old Montclair resident Sarah Butler, a student at Jersey City University, on Nov. 22. Authorities found Butler’s body in Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange on Dec. 1 after she was reported missing on Nov. 23.

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Authorities have also charged Wheeler-Weaver with murdering Joanne Brown, 33, on Oct. 22. Brown’s body was discovered in a vacant Orange home on Dec. 5, prosecutors said.

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The indictment also charges Wheeler-Weaver with the Sept. 1 murder of Robin West, 19, of Philadelphia. Prosecutors allege that Wheeler-Weaver killed West in Orange and then set fire to the vacant home.

At the time of her murder, West was living in Union Township; she was reported missing in September, authorities said.

Prosecutors said that Wheeler-Weaver is also accused of attacking a fourth victim, a 34-year-old woman, in a “sexual” manner.

The woman survived the attack and her name is being withheld at this time, prosecutors said.

The 11-count indictment charges Wheeler-Weaver with three counts of murder, three counts of desecration of human remains, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, attempted murder and aggravated arson.

Photo: Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, Khalil Wheeler-Weaver