Crime & Safety
Read Brother's Letter To Michelle Lodzinski: 'All The Lies, Why?'
Read letter Michelle Lodzinski's brother wrote her before she was convicted of 1991 murder of her 5-year-old N.J. son, asking why she lied.

"Why have you never sought justice for Timmy?"
"Because the police think you did it?"
"That wouldn't stop me if it was my kid."
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Those are some of the words expressed by Michael Lodzinski in a letter to his sister, Michelle, that was sent to her before she was convicted Wednesday for the 1991 murder of her son, Timmy.
NJ Advance Media published the full letter a day after a jury of seven men and five women convicted Michelle Lodzinski after eight weeks of testimony.
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"If you never talk to me again I understand," according to the letter. "I just keep thinking about Timmy. The family deserves answers. I feel we have failed Timmy and we have failed you too."
He told her he just wanted to encourage her to "do the right thing" and to be honest about what happened to the boy.
"All the lies, why?"
Michelle's family has been largely supportive of her during the 25-year saga, marked by her frequent attempts to cover up the crime, the discovery of the body behind the Raritan Center and other nefarious dealings involving Lodzinski.
Michael, however, has been more skeptical as of late, noting that Michelle was convicted for faking her own kidnapping in 1994, and was later convicted for stealing a computer.
Still, Michael noted that he was among the very few from the family who still wanted to help her. After the verdict was read in court, he yelled: "I love you sis!"
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 married 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.
Read the full letter here.
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