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January 9, 2008

Conn. hears appeal of killer who ditched body in R.I.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut Supreme Court has heard the appeal of a Berlin man convicted of killing a Hartford woman and ditching her body in Rhode Island.

Edwin Snelgrove Jr. had written letters comparing himself to serial killer Ted Bundy. His criminal record includes killing a woman in New Jersey and nearly killing another.

He was sentenced to life for the September 2001 murder of 23-year-old Carmen Rodriguez.

At his sentencing, Snelgrove yelled that the judge and jury convicted him not on the evidence, but on his past.

His public defender told the high court yesterday that there's no objective, physical evidence linking Snelgrove to the crime.

Rodriguez, a 32-year-old mother of four, was last seen alive leaving a Hartford dance club with Snelgrove, according to the police.

A carpenter picking up trash in the woods near Grassy Pond Road in Hopkinton found Rodriguez's decomposing remains stuffed in a plastic garbage bag on Jan. 6, 2002. Her teenage daughter had reported her missing almost four months earlier.

-- The Associated Press with Journal archival reports

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