OLD BRIDGE • SAYREVILLE
WEDNESDAY, June 2, 2021
njsuburban.com
Wrestler captures second girls state wrestling title By STEVEN BASSIN Staff Writer
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ack when Gabby Miller was a youth wrestler in the Jamesburg Recreation Wrestling program, she remembers asking her father, Jeffrey, one evening if she could be a high school state champion someday. Even though the odds were stacked against Miller at the time, with girls wrestling not yet an NJSIAA sanctioned sport, her father told her that if she put her mind to it and worked harder than anyone else, she could be a state champion. When Miller entered high school during the 2018-19 academic year, the NJSIAA announced that girls wrestling would begin that same year and that a state tournament for girls would take place just like the boys. It was “great timing” for Miller, who roared to winning the first-ever 147-pound girls state championship as a member of the Monroe Township High School wrestling program. Now a grappler for the Old Bridge High
School wrestling team, Miller saw her hard-fought road to winning a second state championship, this time at 128 pounds, come to fruition on April 10 at Phillipsburg High School. Miller used all the hard work she did in the offseason to work on her technique and conditioning to top Emily Klein of Paramus High School in the 128-pound final by a 6-2 decision, becoming a two-time state champion and the first girls wrestling state champion for Old Bridge. Seeing her mother, Jessica, in the stands cheering her on after the victory, relief and excitement set in for Miller, who was now a two-time state champion. “Everyone was excited,” Miller said about winning her second state championship. “It was strictly business for me walking into the tournament. I took things one match at a time and was focused on winning each match. “When I won my first, it was an historic moment. After looking back on my second one, it’ll be something I’ll always (Continued on page 3)
Supreme Court affirms trial verdict of Lodzinski
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PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA MILLER
Old Bridge High School 128-pound wrestler Gabby Miller celebrates winning her second girls state wrestling championship with assistant coach Josh Baker on April 10 at Phillipsburg High School.
iddlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief John Zebrowski of the Sayreville Police Department announce the Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of a former South Amboy woman who was previously sentenced to serve 30 years in the New Jersey Department of Corrections for the murder of her five-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, whose partial remains were recovered in 1992 after he was reported missing from a carnival in 1991. On the evening of May 25, 1991, Michelle Lodzinski, now 53, reported Timothy had gone missing at a carnival in Sayreville. Timothy was not located that night despite an extensive search of the carnival grounds by Sayreville police officers and firefighters. On April 23, 1992, investigators located
Timothy’s partial remains along with one of his sneakers and a blanket in a remote wooded area near Raritan Center in Edison where Lodzinski once worked. For more than two decades, although the case remained open and active, there were no significant developments in the investigation. In 2011, a review of the evidence and facts surrounding Timothy’s disappearance and murder resulted in the case being pursued anew. This further pursuit was conducted by Captain Scott Crocco of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. The results of the further investigation were presented to a Middlesex County Grand Jury by Section Chief Scott LaMountain in July 2014. (Continued on page 3)