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FREDERICK HART - 15 yo - (1990) - / Convicted: Steven Goff - Galloway, NJ
by twinkletoes Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:09 pm
New Jersey man admits to killing teen 23 years ago
Published April 03, 2013
FoxNews.com
April 2, 2013: Steven Goff, of Ventnor, appears in Atlantic County Criminal Court, in Mays Landing, N.J. (MyFoxNY.com)
GALLOWAY, N.J. – A New Jersey man told a judge in his first court appearance since turning himself in to police that he would plead guilty to the killing a teen 23 years ago.
"I did the crime. I’m prepared to do whatever I got to do," said Steven L. Goff, 41, of Ventnor.
But the hearing Tuesday in Superior Court was not to accept a plea, and the judge warned him anything he said could be used against him. He also told him he needed to get a lawyer.
MyFoxNY.com reported that Goff surrendered at the police station in Galloway on Monday morning.
Within hours, he was charged with murder in the 1990 death of 15-year-old Frederick Hart in woods behind a condo complex in Galloway, authorities said.
Goff was 18 at the time Hart was killed. His remains were not found until 1991, when a hunter discovered them in the woods, the station reported.
The cause of death was never able to be determined from the remains, but prosecutors now say he had been stabbed, prosecutors told the station.
Goff is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
As a prosecutor described how the victim was stabbed, Goff raised and then dropped his head, appearing to fight back tears.
“I’m prepared to enter a plea, a guilty plea, right here now,” he told the court.
No motive for the killing was given.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/03/nj-man-admits-killing-teen-23-years-ago/?test=latestnews#ixzz2PPDNrjZ
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Re: FREDERICK HART - 15 yo - (1990) - / Convicted: Steven Goff - Galloway, NJ
by mermaid55 Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:23 pm
New Jersey man sentenced to 30 years for 1990 murder of teen boy
Steven Goff says he had to turn himself in because he could no longer handle the guilt from stabbing and strangling Frederick Hart, 15, to death 23 years ago in Galloway Township.
Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10:37 AM
A guilt-ridden New Jersey man who confessed to murdering a teen 23 years ago was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday.
"You deserve to see me suffer," Steven Goff, 41, told the victim's family in court.
Goff showed up at a police station in April to confess that he stabbed and strangled Frederick Hart, 15, back in May 1990. He dumped the boy’s body in a wooded area of Galloway Township, near Atlantic City, where a hunter found it a year and a half later.
"He said it's been gnawing at him for years," said Alan Rickel, a friend who spoke to Goff after he was jailed.
Goff pleaded for leniency from the court and "perspective" from Hart's family.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nj-man-30-years-1990-murder-teen-article-1.1404302#ixzz2zkrA50pj
Steven Goff says he had to turn himself in because he could no longer handle the guilt from stabbing and strangling Frederick Hart, 15, to death 23 years ago in Galloway Township.
Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10:37 AM
A guilt-ridden New Jersey man who confessed to murdering a teen 23 years ago was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday.
"You deserve to see me suffer," Steven Goff, 41, told the victim's family in court.
Goff showed up at a police station in April to confess that he stabbed and strangled Frederick Hart, 15, back in May 1990. He dumped the boy’s body in a wooded area of Galloway Township, near Atlantic City, where a hunter found it a year and a half later.
"He said it's been gnawing at him for years," said Alan Rickel, a friend who spoke to Goff after he was jailed.
Goff pleaded for leniency from the court and "perspective" from Hart's family.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nj-man-30-years-1990-murder-teen-article-1.1404302#ixzz2zkrA50pj
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