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July 1,2015

the staff of the Ridgewood blogRidgewood NJ, A grand jury has indicted a former Ridgewood Lacrosse Star Nicholas Piotti of Ho Ho Kus for the killing of his mother.

Piotti was accused of stabbing and beating his mother to death in the fall of last year.

Nicholas Piotti, 24, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the killing of his mother, Karen, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon

According to prosecutors, the 63-year-old victim suffered multiple stab wounds and beating trauma in the Sept. 1 attack.

Piotti’s lawyer said last year his client had psychiatric problems and he’d pursue an insanity defense.

Piotti, is due back in court in August and is currently being held in the Bergen County Jail in lieu of $2 million bail.

Nicholas Piotti seen in the Ridgewood High School 2008 yearbook.

Seemingly close Ho-Ho-Kus family torn apart by slaying

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014, 10:06 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014, 6:19 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG, ABBOTT KOLOFF AND CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD

His mother doted on him when he was a child and they remained close while he attended college, according to friends. They said he seemed to have everything going for him and a comfortable life — a job as a TV stagehand while he pursued a career in music, a backyard pool at his parents’ house in wealthy Ho-Ho-Kus, even Giants season tickets.

Nicholas Piotti, 24, a onetime lacrosse standout at Ridgewood High School, remained in a psychiatric hospital Tuesday, authorities said, one day after police said he beat and stabbed his mother, 63-year-old Karen, to death in their Ho-Ho-Kus home.

Police found her body inside the family’s Timberline Road home with stab wounds and “beating trauma” early Monday after responding to an aborted 911 call, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. He said he did not know who made the call and that Karen Piotti’s husband, James, was not at home at the time of the killing, which happened after midnight Monday. Molinelli did not respond Tuesday to requests for further information.

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