安吉洛·科隆-奥尔蒂斯(Angelo Colon-Ortiz)周三对二级谋杀和徒手抢劫指控认罪，这些指控与2016年纽约市谷歌员工瓦妮莎·马科特(Vanessa Marcotte)被杀有关，她在马萨诸塞州普林斯顿市母亲家附近慢跑时被杀。
2017年被捕的科隆-奥尔蒂斯被判终身监禁。
伍斯特县地方检察官约瑟夫·厄尔利说，马科特家人要求检察官接受请求，以免他们在审判中听到瓦妮莎死亡的细节。
厄尔利在一份声明中说:“我们知道没有什么能让瓦妮莎起死回生，但我们知道，通过检察官和调查人员的细致工作，正义将得到伸张，认罪让瓦妮莎的家人从这场悲剧中走出来。”
马科特家族发表声明，感谢检察官并缅怀瓦妮莎。
马科特一家说:“我们很感激也很欣慰，法律程序实现了我们一直以来的愿望，这个男人现在将在一个他不能像伤害凡妮莎那样伤害任何人的地方。”“为了纪念瓦妮莎，我们将继续通过瓦妮莎·t·马科特基金会教育和保护女性。”
该基金会培训妇女自卫，并教导妇女和女孩关于慢跑者安全、暴力预防和健康关系的知识。
Angelo Colon-Ortiz listens to his attorney Edward Ryan, Jr., left, speak during his arraignment in Leominster, Mass., on Apr. 18, 2017.
基思·贝德福德/波士顿环球报
27岁的马科特曾在纽约的谷歌工作。她于2016年8月拜访马萨诸塞州的家人，当时她在2016年8月7日下午出去慢跑，在她没有回到娘家后被报告失踪。那天晚上晚些时候，马科特的尸体在离她家不远的树林里被发现。
调查人员收到了1300多条线索，但一名州警发现了一辆SUV，其司机符合嫌疑人的描述，这被证明是该案的重大突破。
警察在他的手上记下了车牌号，然后当局能够从嫌疑人身上获得DNA，他被确认为科隆-奥尔蒂斯。他的DNA与犯罪现场收集的证据相匹配。
Massachusetts man pleads guilty to murdering Google employee Vanessa Marcotte
Angelo Colon-Ortiz pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and unarmed robbery charges in connection with the 2016 killing of Vanessa Marcotte, a Google employee in New York City who was killed while jogging near her mother’s home in Princeton, Massachusetts.
Colon-Ortiz, who was arrested in 2017, was sentenced to life in prison.
Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early said the Marcotte family asked prosecutors to accept the plea to spare them from listening to the details of Vanessa’s death during a trial.
“We know nothing can bring Vanessa back, but we know, through the meticulous work of the prosecutors and investigators involved, justice will be served, and the plea allows Vanessa’s family to move on from this tragedy,” Early said in a statement.
The Marcotte family issued a statement thanking prosecutors and remembering Vanessa.
“We are thankful and gratified the legal process has accomplished what we always wished for, that this man will now be in a place where he can’t hurt anyone else like the way he hurt Vanessa,” the Marcotte family said. “To honor and remember Vanessa, we will continue to educate and protect women through the Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation.”
The foundation trains women in self-defense and teaches women and girls about jogger safety, violence prevention and healthy relationships.
Marcotte, 27, had worked for Google in New York City. She was visiting family in Massachusetts in August 2016 when she went out for a jog on the afternoon of Aug. 7, 2016, and was reported missing after she did not return to her family’s home. Marcotte’s body was discovered in the woods not far from her family’s home later that evening.
Investigators received more than 1,300 tips but a state trooper’s spotting of an SUV with a driver that matched the suspect’s description proved to be the big break in the case.
The trooper wrote down the license plate number on his hand and authorities were then able to obtain DNA from the suspect, who was identified as Colon-Ortiz. His DNA led to a match from evidence collected at the crime scene.
