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Wednesday 19 april 2017

$10M bail for suspect in death of jogger in Massachusetts

LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) and assault with attempt to
— A man arrested in con- rape in the Aug. 7 death of
nection with the death of 27-year-old Vanessa Mar-
a New York City woman cotte.
jogging near her mother’s Prosecutor Jeffrey Travers
Massachusetts home last said he requested high bail
summer was tied the crime because Colon-Ortiz is ex-
scene through DNA and pected to eventually face
cellphone evidence, as a murder charge in the kill-
well as eyewitness reports, ing of Marcotte.
prosecutors said Tuesday. Marcotte’s body was found
Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, of in the woods several hours
Worcester, who tried to after she failed to return
stay out of sight during his from a run to her mother’s
arraignment in Leominster home in Princeton, about
District Court, was held 40 miles (64 kilometers)
on $10 million bail after his west of Boston.
lawyer entered not guilty A passer-by saw a man
pleas to charges of aggra- prosecutors allege was
vated assault and battery Ortiz-Colon holding a cell-
Angelo Colon-Ortiz listens to his attorney Edward Ryan, Jr., left,
speak during his arraignment in connection with the assault
and murder of Vanessa Marcotte in Princeton last August at
the Leominster District Court in Leominster, Mass., Tuesday, April
18, 2017. Colon-Ortiz was charged with assault and attempted
rape, and prosecutors said they sought the high bail because
they expect to charge him with murder in the slaying of Mar-
cotte.
(Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via AP)

phone and standing next description of the suspect,
to a dark-colored SUV with Travers said.
its hood up at about 12:45 The trooper made note of
p.m. the day Marcotte dis- the license plate number
appeared and near where and visited Colon-Ortiz’s
her body was discovered, home, talked to his wife,
Travers said. That witness and left a business card,
saw the same vehicle just asking him to call. When
after 2 p.m. Colon-Ortiz was Colon-Ortiz didn’t respond,
a driver for FedEx, and was the trooper returned to
familiar with Princeton and the home and obtained
surrounding towns, Travers a voluntary DNA sample,
said, although it does not Travers said. That sample
appear he was working at was determined to be a
the time Marcotte disap- match with the DNA found
peared. Cellphone records on Marcotte. The odds of a
indicate he was in the similar match are 1 in 108.3
area. Colon-Ortiz was also quadrillion, Travers said.
tied to Marcotte’s death Edward Ryan, Colon-Or-
through DNA left on the tiz’s attorney, questioned
victim’s hands, likely during the way the DNA sample
a struggle with her attack- was acquired. His client
er, prosecutors said. is not proficient in English
A state trooper recently and may not have under-
spotted a similar SUV with stood what he was being
a driver who matched the asked.q