Andrea Cincotta, a single parent of-one and neighborhood curator, was choked to death in August 1998. Her body was found by the casualty’s life partner, James Christopher Johnson, in the wardrobe of the Arlington, Virginia, loft they shared. The life partner, alongside Bobby Joe Leonard, a support specialist, were proclaimed essential suspects at first until the case went cold.
More than twenty years after the fact, Andrea Cincotta’s life partner and Leonard, previously spending time in jail for the r*pe and endeavored murder of a youngster, were charged in her 1998 strangulation demise. Leonard conceded to first-degree murder, getting a lifelong incarceration, while Johnson was tracked down not blameworthy in a preliminary.
In the long run, Bobby Joe Leonard, who was at that point spending time in jail in jail, admitted twenty years after the fact and furthermore ensnared James Christopher Johnson. The two men were charged in 2021.
NBC Dateline is scheduled to additionally dig into Andrea Cincotta’s strangulation passing and the secret that followed this Friday. The episode named Behind the Wardrobe Entryway will air on the channel at 9:00 pm ET on June 23, 2023.
James Christopher Johnson was viewed as an essential suspect in the wound homicide instance of his one-time fiancee, Andrea Cincotta, who was found choked in the storeroom of the loft they shared back in August 1998. He was cleared of all charges last November subsequent to being in the radar for almost 25 years while sentenced r*pist Bobby Joe Leonard confessed.
In 2021, 59-year-old Johnson and 53-year-old Leonard, blamed for homicide for-recruit, were each accused of bothered murder. The previous was the casualty’s live-in life partner and had been in a seven-year relationship with the 52-year-old when she was killed in their condo.
In the mean time, Leonard was at that point carrying out a day to day existence punishment on charges coming from an irrelevant r*pe and endeavored murder of a 13-year-old when Cincotta’s homicide accusation was brought against him. He had likewise been to her condo half a month prior to the homicide. The casualty had given him an old PC and printer.
4James Christopher Johnson was viewed as an essential suspect in the bent homicide instance of his one-time fiancee, Andrea Cincotta, who was found choked in the wardrobe of the condo they shared back in August 1998. He was absolved of all charges last November subsequent to being in the radar for almost 25 years while sentenced r*pist Bobby Joe Leonard confessed.
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In 2021, 59-year-old Johnson and 53-year-old Leonard, blamed for homicide for-enlist, were each accused of disturbed murder. The previous was the casualty’s live-in life partner and had been in a seven-year relationship with the 52-year-old when she was killed in their loft.
In the interim, Leonard was at that point carrying out a daily existence punishment on charges originating from an irrelevant r*pe and endeavored murder of a 13-year-old when Cincotta’s homicide allegation was brought against him. He had likewise been to her loft half a month prior to the homicide. The casualty had given him an old PC and printer.
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