N.J. Woman Who Reported Son, 5, Missing In 1991 Now Faces Murder Trial

In 1991, Michelle Lodzinski said her 5-year-old son was missing at a carnival.

"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.

Twenty-five years later, Lodzinski, 47, faces a murder trial, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.

Lodzinski's trial was to begin Tuesday, nj.com reported, 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.

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, according to the report.

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, according to My9 Chasing NJ.

Her attorney, Gerald Krovatin is 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.

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.

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