Jacquelyn Hilder
Muziwokuthula Madondo
Muziwokuthula Madondo wants death penalty
Muziwokuthula "Muzi" Madondo, who was arrested for 4 murders on March 28 in Houston, Texas has sought prosecution in Ohio because the state has the death penalty.
Madondo, a former University of Durban Westville SRC president, confessed to the murders of Maritzburg College old boy Zanzele Mdadane, FirstMerit Bank vice-president Jacquelyn Hilder in Ohio, and the murders of father and son Bobby Gonzales and Gabriel Baca in New Mexico while in police custody.
The murders took place during February and March.
The Citizen reported that State policeman Lieutenant Rick Edwards said that Madondo allegedly first murdered a 60-year-old women in Akron Ohio on February 17. She was shot once in the abdomen and once in the chest.
Two days later Maritzburg College old boy Zanzele Mdadane was found murdered. His body was found by hunters in the woods in Butler Township, Ohio.
On March 24 Madondo allegedly shot dead Bobby Gonzales, 57, and Gabriel Baca, 37, in a motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico -- 2000km from the last murder in Ohio.
According to Akron police department spokesman Michael Schaeffer the former South African “kind of made mention that he wants to come to Ohio because New Mexico does not have the death sentence. He wants the death penalty."
The accused also rejected the South African embassy's offer to put him in touch with his family and Johnny Moloto, South Africa's deputy ambassador in Washington DC, said that without Madondo's consent, the embassy could not contact his family or comment.
Madondo was accused of corruption and mismanagement involving university funds at the University of Durban-Westville in 2003 during his terms as Student Representative Council president.
Originally from Richmond Farm outside KwaMashu, Madondo entered the US in 2008 as a theology student.
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