the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Midland Park NJ, Arthur Lomando, the ex-cop convicted of stabbing a Midland Park woman Suzanne Bardzell, his former girlfriend to death in a 2017 machete ambush, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, closing a legal chapter in what prosecutors called the region’s “most heinous crime” in years.
Hours after the killing, Lomondo attempted suicide by throwing himself in front of a Manhattan subway train. He survived the jump, but doctors were forced to amputate both of his feet in the hospital.
A jury took only three hours of deliberations in February to declare Lomando guilty. The three-week trial led jurors through a harrowing chronicle of the last month of Suzanne Bardzell’s life, a time when her three-year relationship with Lomando grew increasingly hostile.
Bardzell filed several complaints against him in that period, including an accusation that Lomando had broken into her house and threatened to kill her while he was holding scissors. She obtained a temporary restraining order and called police multiple times to say he had violated it.
In the days before her death, police filed at least three separate charges against him for those alleged violations.
It’s amazing how many things have gone on in that little town In the past few years. Keep the doors open .
Again in the hillbilly town. Very sick,