Drowned by Love Edward Tetz and Kimberly Tetz, Michelle Melini

In season 3 episode  12, " Drowned by Love" The New Jersey story of Edward Tetz and Kimberly Tetz which ends badly with Kimberly dead and Edward in prison.

This show is described as in New Jersey, Kimberly Tetz has it all, but all good things come to an end when someone ends up on the losing end of a deadly ultimatum. And later, pianist Tom Whitney (Tim Duquette) finally meets the love of his life, but this true love story will end on a sour note. 

Michelle Melini

 In December 1996, defendant began an affair with Michelle Melini roughly six months after his marriage to his wife. Defendant had discussed divorce with his wife in January 1997, and Melini told defendant he would have to choose between his wife and her.

At 8:44 p.m. on February 11, 1997, Vineland police officers
discovered Kimberly slumped over in her small car in Giampietro Park. She was shot twice at close range by a shotgun. Substantial evidence supporting the conviction included: the affair and defendant’s request for divorce; defendant drove a white pickup truck and eyewitnesses saw both a truck and a small car, like defendant’s and Kimberly’s, in dvawareness3the park shortly before the homicide; defendant’s statements to police regarding his affair and his whereabouts before the homicide were belied by other evidence; defendant owned shotguns and police discovered in defendant’s home partially empty boxes of ammunition like that used in the murder; and a blood sample found near the truck’s gas tank lid matched the DNA of a sample of Kimberly’s blood. Actually, two samples of Kimberly’s blood were collected and provided to police. One was provided to a police officer present at the autopsy. A second sample was provided later, by a person at Shore Memorial Hospital where Kimberly was taken after the murder.

You can write to Edward Tetz at:

Edward Tetz 000647819B
New Jersey State Prison
P.O. Box 861
Trenton, New Jersey 08625

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State v Tetz