{"id":20587,"date":"2016-02-19T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=20587"},"modified":"2016-02-19T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:38:50","slug":"20587-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=20587","title":{"rendered":"Three Family Members Given Life Sentences for Courthouse Murder Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>DELAWARE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Three family members \u2014 <strong>David T. Matusiewicz, Lenore Matusiewicz<\/strong> and <strong>Amy Gonzalez<\/strong> \u2014were sentenced Thursday in federal court to life in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The trio were charged for the\u00a0February 2013 murder of<strong> David Matusiewicz\u2019s ex-wife<\/strong> and a friend at the New Castle County Courthouse, federal officials announced today.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20596\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20596 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy-Gonzalez-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Gonzalez\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy-Gonzalez-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Amy-Gonzalez-45x35.jpg 45w, 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and killed Laura \u201cBeth\u201d Mulford, who accompanied Belford to the courthouse that morning.\u00a0 Judge McHugh determined that, based on defendant\u2019s repeated criminal conduct and the serious nature of the offense, which included \u201ccontempt for the law,\u201d only a life sentence would protect the community and Belford\u2019s children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lenore Matusiewicz and Gonzalez likewise received life sentences .<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20593 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lenore.jp_-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lenore.jp\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lenore.jp_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lenore.jp_-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lenore.jp_.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Matusiewicz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lenore Matusiewicz was sentenced at her bedside last week at Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Gonzalez was sentenced after her brother\u2019s sentence was imposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Judge McHugh concluded that Gonzalez\u2019s overall stalking conduct was inextricably intertwined with the conduct of her family members\u00a0and that it was reasonably foreseeable to Gonzalez that an act of violence would occur when her brother, mother and father left for Delaware in early February 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Matusiewicz family\u2019s stalking campaign included broad dissemination &#8212; by mail, email, websites, Internet postings and other means \u2013 of false and defamatory allegations against Belford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After his release from federal custody, David Matusiewicz resided in southern Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Jan. 8, 2013, David Matusiewicz sought and received permission from the U.S. Probation Office in Texas to travel to Delaware to attend a child support arrearage hearing he had requested.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That hearing was scheduled for Feb. 11, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">David Matusiewicz never informed the probation officer that he intended to travel to Delaware with Thomas and Lenore Matusiewicz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On the morning of Feb. 11, 2013, David and Thomas Matusiewicz drove to a hotel parking garage near the New Castle County Courthouse in a Honda CRV, which contained ammunition, a military style knife, three sets of restraints of progressively smaller sizes, a bullet proof vest, an electric shock device, binoculars and photographs of Belford\u2019s children and residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After entering the courthouse lobby at approximately 7:30 a.m., David Matusiewicz entered and stayed in the security screening line, while Thomas Matusiewicz moved around the lobby, occasionally approaching and talking to David Matusiewicz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Shortly before 8:00 a.m., David Matusiewicz passed through courthouse security screening and walked to another floor of the building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thomas Matusiewicz remained in the lobby, where he shot Belford multiple times as she entered the courthouse lobby, killing her.\u00a0 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