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    Muziwokuthula Madondo Sentenced to Life in Prison for 2011 OH Slayings of Jacquelyn Hilder and Zanzele Mdadane



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    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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    South African man accused of killing four people in USA

    The trial of a South African former theology student accused of murdering four people in Ohio and New Mexico has been postponed till October.

    By Paula Baranowska

    A South African man accused of four murders in the United States will stand trial for two of them in October after the case was postponed by the court in New Mexico.

    Muziwokuthula “Muzi” Madondo is being held in a Texas jail after he was arrested in Houston on 28 March 2011 for four murders committed between February and March 2011. He also faces a charge of tampering with evidence.

    Jacquelyn Hider, a 60-year-old bank executive from Akron, Ohio, was the first of Madondo’s alleged victims. She was killed by two bullets, one in her abdomen and one in the chest, and robbed in her home.

    Two days later, about 300km away, Madondo allegedly murdered 25-year-old Maritzburg College old boy Zenzele Mdadane, whose bullet-riddled body was later found by hunters in the woods in Butler Township, Ohio. He reportedly met Mdadane at a theme park, although police are not sure how they came to be in Butler Township.

    On 24 March, in Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2,000km from the last murder scene, Madondo allegedly shot dead Bobby Gonzales, 57, and his stepson Gabriel Baca, 37, in a motel, where police found pools of blood and drag marks.

    The alleged murderer originally comes from Richmond, near Pietermaritzburg. He migrated to the US in 2008 to study theology. Before that he studied engineering at the University of Durban Westville (UDW), where he led the Student Christian Fellowship and was Student Representative Council president until 2003, when he was sacked after being charged with corruption, mismanagement of university funds, fraud, and of coercing the institution to enter into contracts that cost it millions of rand. He was also accused of mobilising students to interfere with the smooth running of the academic calendar. His conduct, a statement said at the time, was detrimental to the university’s maintenance of order and discipline.

    His former peers from UDW described him as “an ordinary, down-to-earth guy.”

    Faizal Khan, a former student who knew Madondo, described him as ”a controversial leader. In our days we were very political. But this has come as a shock. It’s criminal, murder… it’s very shocking.

    “He was a good leader. He had a large following both in the SRC and the Student Christian Fellowship. He would pray for students who were possessed by demons. He was charismatic. You could see God had chosen him. He used to change lives,” said Khan.

    In the USA, Madondo had worked for a satellite TV business and then turned to robbery, according to police. Police found Madondo by contacting the satellite TV company he worked for and enlisted the help of his former supervisor, who sent him text messages offering him employment in the Houston area. By this time Madondo had realised he was a wanted man and tried to obtain fake identification. He sent the supervisor a message saying, “those amigoz thought they were smart, I wil tel you more in person bos”. When police arrested him, he allegedly told police he wanted to make a success of his life to help his elderly parents.

    Madondo has pleaded not guilty to the murders committed in Tucumcari, but allegedly confessed to the first two killings in Ohio. If he is convicted he may face the death penalty as it is legal in the state of Ohio. Lieutenant David Whiddon of the Akron Police Department, told the press that Madondo would be brought back to Ohio to face charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary. However, prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty.

    Madondo’s lawyer Roger Bargas, who represents him only in connection with the Gonzales and Baca murders, applied for suppression of evidence last year. In September Bargas said that a jury should not hear the statements Madondo made to the police immediately after his arrest as the police illegally took statements from the accused, despite his request for a lawyer. Bargas added the police failed to immediately contact South African consular officials, who would have advised Madondo about his rights.

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    US court throws out SA man's murder confession

    Durban (SAPA) - A South African man's apparent confession to four murders, which was videotaped by Texas Rangers after his arrest, has been thrown out by a US court.

    In his ruling, Judge Albert Mitchell found that Muziwokuthula "Muzi" Madondo's state and federal rights had been violated after his requests for an attorney, as well as his request not speak to the police, had been ignored.

    Madondo is to be tried before a jury in the Quay County District Court in the US state of New Mexico for two of the four murders - those of father and son Bobby Gonzales, 57, and Gabriel Baca, 37.

    Mitchell, who will preside over that trial, ruled on Monday that "the oral and video statements of the defendant are suppressed".

    Madondo has pleaded not guilty to the first degree murders of Gonzales and Baca. He allegedly shot them in a motel in Tucumcari before fleeing to Texas, where he was arrested in March 2011.

    He also faces a charge of tampering with evidence.

    According to the ruling, Mitchell found that Madondo had twice asked for an attorney.

    "At no time did the defendant waive his right to counsel or his right to remain silent. The defendant clearly articulated on two occasions to law enforcement officials who were holding him in custody, both Texas and New Mexico officials, that he wanted a lawyer and did not want to speak."

    Mitchell ruled that the subsequent interview with Madondo was a violation of both his state and federal rights to an attorney and to remain silent.

    Search warrant

    Mitchell rejected an application by Madondo's lawyer Roger Bargas to have the search warrant used to search Madondo and his van at the time of his arrest declared invalid.

    He also ruled that the seizure of Madondo's bible was legal and could be used as evidence in the case as it was evidence gained as a result of the search warrant.

    Mitchell said Bargas had argued that the statements obtained from Madondo "were based upon the utilisation of the Bible, and therefore should be suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree".

    Mitchell said that argument was not relevant since he was suppressing the video and oral evidence as Madondo's rights to an attorney and to remain silent had been ignored.

    The jury at Madondo's trial may yet get to hear what he said to officers as Mitchell in a separate order allowed both the District Attorney and Bargas to lodge an appeal to the New Mexico Supreme Court before he stands trial should they wish to do so.

    Bargas is representing Madondo only in connection with the Gonzales and Baca murders, and not in connection with murders he allegedly committed in Ohio.

    It is in the video and oral statements suppressed by Mitchell, that Madondo allegedly confessed to the murder of FirstMerit Bank executive Jacquelyn Hilder, 60. She was shot dead in her home in Akron, Ohio, on 17 February 2011.

    Two days later, about 300km away, the bullet-riddled body of Maritzburg College old boy Zenzele Mdadane, 25, was found in the woods in Butler Township, Ohio. Madondo, 34, also allegedly confessed to this killing.

    Madondo has yet to appear in court in Ohio for the murders of Hilder and Mdadane or plead to them.

    Originally from Richmond, near Pietermaritzburg, Madondo emigrated to the US in 2008 to study theology.

    New Mexico does not have the death penalty, but if Madondo is convicted of the two murders in Ohio, he could face the death penalty.

    At the time of his arrest it was reported that Madondo had claimed that he wanted the death penalty.

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    SA man’s US murder trial postponed

    An appeal over whether a South African man's apparent confession to four murders in the United States can be heard by a jury seems to have resulted in his trial being postponed yet again.

    Muziwokuthula “Muzi” Madondo's jury trial in the Quay County District Court in the US state of New Mexico for two of the four murders-- those of father and son Bobby Gonzales, 57, and Gabriel Baca, 37, was set to start next Friday.

    However, court records for the state of New Mexico show that last week the trial dates were vacated. No reason is shown on the records.

    Earlier this year, Judge Albert Mitchell found Madondo's state and federal rights had been violated after his requests for an attorney as well as his request not speak to the police had been ignored.

    Mitchell, who will preside over that trial, ruled on Monday that “the oral and video statements of the defendant are suppressed”.

    While neither Madondo's lawyer Roger Bargas nor district attorney Tim Rose could be reached for comment, an official for the New Mexico Supreme Court, who declined to be named, said on Wednesday that not all the written arguments for an appeal had been lodged.

    She said no date for oral argument had been set, although the five judges could simply hand down a ruling based on the written arguments submitted by both legal teams.

    Madondo has pleaded not guilty to the first degree murders of Gonzales and Baca. He allegedly shot them in a motel in Tucumcari before fleeing to Texas, where he was arrested in March 2011 and made the alleged confessions. He also faces a charge of tampering with evidence.

    According to the ruling, Mitchell found Madondo had twice asked for an attorney.

    Mitchell ruled that the subsequent interview with Madondo was a violation of both his state and federal rights to an attorney and to remain silent.

    Bargas is representing Madondo only in connection with the Gonzales and Baca murders, and not in connection with murders he allegedly committed in Ohio.

    It is in the video and oral statements suppressed by Mitchell, that Madondo allegedly confessed to the murder of FirstMerit Bank executive Jacquelyn Hilder, 60. She was shot dead in her home in Akron, Ohio, on February 17, 2011.

    Two days later, about 300km away, the bullet-riddled body of Maritzburg College old boy Zenzele Mdadane, 25, was found in the woods in Butler Township, Ohio. Madondo, 34, also allegedly confessed to this killing.

    Madondo has yet to appear in court in Ohio for the murders of Hilder and Mdadane, or to plead to them.

    Originally from Richmond, near Pietermaritzburg, Madondo emigrated to the US in 2008 to study theology.

    New Mexico does not have the death penalty, but if Madondo is convicted of the two murders in Ohio, he could face the death penalty.

    At the time of his arrest it was reported that Madondo had claimed that he wanted the death penalty.

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    SA man's US murder trial might happen in 2015

    According to Quay County District Court records in the US state of New Mexico, Muziwokuthula "Muzi" Madondo will stand trial before a jury on March 2, 2015 -- almost four years after his arrest in Texas.

    However, these dates are not cast in stone as an appeal over whether an apparent confession Madondo made to police officers at the time of his arrest on March 28, 2011 in the town of Conroe, near Houston, Texas, can be heard by a jury.

    He is accused of shooting dead father and son Bobby Gonzales, 57, and Gabriel Baca, 37, in hotel in Tucumcari, before fleeing to Texas.

    New Mexico's attorney general has to lodge what is called the "brief-in-chief" with the New Mexico Supreme Court by October 16.

    As of Thursday, this had not been done, but Quay County District Court attorney Tim Rose told Sapa his office had in April sent all the necessary papers for the brief-in-chief to the attorney general's office.

    "We are hoping that there will be a ruling by then," said Rose.

    After the brief-in-chief had been lodged, Madondo's lawyer Roger Bargas had a further 120 days to submit an answering brief. Then the attorney general had a further 20 days to submit a responding brief.

    The five judges of the New Mexico supreme court could rule on the basis of the documents submitted, but they may also ask for the parties to argue their case orally before a ruling is made.

    Earlier this year, Judge Albert Mitchell found Madondo's state and federal rights had been violated after his requests for an attorney, as well as his request not to speak to the police, were ignored at the time of his arrest. Mitchell found Madondo twice asked for an attorney.

    Mitchell, who will preside over Madondo's trial for the murders of Baca and Gonzales, ruled that "the oral and video statements of the defendant are suppressed".

    Rose told Sapa on Thursday that: "There was no basis for the judge's ruling. As a matter of fact they [the arresting officers] did respect his rights, but it was Madondo who kept on talking."

    Rose said Madondo had received seven warnings from the officers about his rights to remain silent and obtain legal representation.

    Madondo became a person of interest to the police because his motel room was next to the one in which the bodies of Baca and Gonzales were found.

    Bargas is representing Madondo only in connection with the Gonzales and Baca murders, and not in connection with murders he allegedly committed in Ohio.

    In the video and oral statements suppressed by Mitchell, Madondo allegedly confesses to the murder of FirstMerit Bank executive Jacquelyn Hilder, 60. She was shot dead in her home in Akron, Ohio, on February 17, 2011.

    Two days later, about 300km away, the bullet-riddled body of Maritzburg College old boy Zenzele Mdadane, 25, was found in the woods in Butler Township, Ohio.

    Madondo, 34, also allegedly confessed to this killing.

    Madondo has yet to appear in court in Ohio for the murders of Hilder and Mdadane, or to plead to them.

    Originally from Richmond, near Pietermaritzburg, Madondo emigrated to the US in 2008 to study theology.

    New Mexico does not have the death penalty, but if Madondo is convicted of the two murders in Ohio, he could face the death penalty in that state.

    At the time of his arrest it was reported that Madondo had claimed he wanted the death penalty.

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/201...happen-in-2015
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    Expat's murder confessions were violation of his rights - US court

    A US jury will never hear the confession to four murders a South African man allegedly made when arrested.

    This emerged from a ruling in the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico News24 obtained on Thursday.

    The judgement, handed down on May 11, upheld an earlier decision by Quay County District Court Judge Albert J Mitchell ruling Muziwokuthula "Muzi" Madondo's rights had been violated when he made the alleged confessions.

    Madondo is originally from Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal. He emigrated to the US in 2008 to study theology.

    Last year Mitchell ordered the suppression of Madondo's confessions following his arrest on March 27, 2011 in Conroe, near Houston, Texas.

    Mitchell found Madondo's state and federal rights were violated after his requests for an attorney, as well as his request not to speak to the police, had been ignored.

    In New Mexico Madondo is accused of shooting dead father and son Bobby Gonzales, 57, and Gabriel Baca, 37, in a Tucumcari hotel before fleeing to Texas in March 2011.

    He is also alleged to have killed two people in Ohio, FirstMerit Bank executive Jacquelyn Hilder and Maritzburg College old boy Zenzele Mdadane.

    The ruling by the five-man New Mexico Supreme Court in the Tucumcari cases was unanimous, but did not reveal the reasons for the judgement to be handed down later.

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    It is Madondo's videotaped confession the attorney-general wanted a jury to hear when he ultimately stands trial in December for the Tucumcari murders.

    Police interviewed Madondo on three consecutive days, starting with the day he was arrested, and each day he told them more until he allegedly confessed to the murders of the four people.

    The argument in the Supreme Court of New Mexico focused on whether he had actually given up his rights to silence and his right to have an attorney present after he had initially insisted on them on March 27, 2011.

    In papers submitted to the court, Madondo's lawyers accused law enforcement officers of ignoring his request to remain silent and to have an attorney when he was arrested.

    Chief public defender Jorge A Alvarado argued "because Madondo's confession only resulted from police ignoring his attempts to invoke his rights, misleading him about them, badgering him and preying upon his special vulnerabilities [particularly those relating to religion] to extract his admission, his statement was not voluntarily given".

    Later Texas Ranger Steve Rayburn and Madondo discussed whether the South African would go to heaven or hell.

    "God put you here for a reason," Rayburn told Madondo and urged him not to fight God's will, "because he needed to tell the truth to be spiritually free".

    Arguing for the suppression order to be dropped, attorney-general Hector Balderas said Madondo knew he was giving up his rights when he talked and did so knowingly and voluntarily.

    While Madondo now knows his confessions related to the murders of Gonzales and Baca would not feature in his trial in Tucumcari in December, the ruling would have no bearing on when he ultimately stands trial in Ohio for the murders of Hilder and Mdadane. The Ohio courts must decide whether his rights were violated.

    While New Mexico does not have the death penalty, Madondo could face the death penalty in Ohio if he convicted of the two murders committed there.

    http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...court-20150611
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    Death penalty looms for SA man over US killing spree

    TUCUMCARI, New Mexico – Accused of killing four people in the US in 2011, South African Muziwokuthula “Muzi” Madondo was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment on Monday for two of his crimes.

    Madondo, who had pleaded guilty last month to gunning down of father and son Bobby Gonzales, 57, and Gabriel Baca, 37, will have to serve at least 24 years before being eligible for parole.

    However, it is debatable whether Madondo will ever be allowed out on parole.

    Hours before his sentencing for two counts of second-degree murder, two detectives from the Akron, Ohio police department arrived in Tucumcari with main purpose of retrieving evidence from their New Mexico counterparts that they hope will lead to Madondo’s conviction for the murder of First Merit Bank executive Jacquelyn Hilder in Ohio.

    Hilder was killed in her home on the night of February 17, 2011, while two days later the bullet-riddled body of a Maritzburg College Old Boy was found in a forest some 300km away in Butler township near the city of Dayton in Ohio.

    Unlike New Mexico, Ohio has the death penalty.

    Quay county district attorney Tim Rose said he was happy with the sentence “given what it is in New Mexico. In other states the sentence for second-degree murder is 30 or 45 years”.

    In New Mexico, the maximum sentence for a conviction of second-degree murder is 15 years. Madondo’s two sentences for each of the murders will run consecutively.

    During his arrest and initial detention by Texas Rangers in the Texas town of Conroe in March 2011, Madondo confessed not only to the murders of Gonzales and Baca, but also apparently to those of Hilder and Zenzele Mdadane.

    Madondo succeeded earlier this year in getting the Supreme Court of New Mexico to rule that his rights were violated when the confession was taken. The court ruled that a jury should not hear the confession but then less than two months before he was due to stand trial Madondo pleaded guilty to the Tucumcari killings.

    Speaking shortly before Madondo’s sentencing, Rose told ANA that the former University of Westville Durban student had admitted to killing Hilder with the sole purpose of “getting money”.

    “He travelled from Akron, Ohio for the sole purpose of committing the murder of Mdadane. He said it was cold-blooded and premeditated. He wanted some retribution for some acts that the other gentleman (Mdadane) had done to him in the past.”

    Madondo, who hails from Richmond near Pietermaritzburg, admitted in his videotaped confession to stripping Mdadane of his clothing so that he would not be identified.

    Madondo used Mdadane’s identification to open a bank account and lease an apartment.

    “It ended up within two weeks of being here he committed two other murders that we believe was motivated by money. We believe he was motivated by money. All four of the murders were committed with the same weapon.”

    Rose said that Madondo would be incarcerated in the state prison in the city of Los Lunas but that he expected Madondo to be extradited to Ohio by January or February next year.

    In Ohio, Lieutenant David Whiddon said: “We sent two detectives to hear the sentencing. They arrived there (in Tucumcari) for the sentencing. They will also take possession of the evidence from the New Mexico police.”

    Whiddon said that until Madondo had made his confession 2011, the Akron detectives had not linked him to Hilder’s murder and he did not believe that link would have been made.

    He said that since the confession though, forensic evidence had tied Madondo to the crime scene, although he declined to say what that evidence was.

    Detective Kevin Sink, from Butler township police department, could not immediately be reached for comment.

    Rose said that should Madondo receive jail terms for the Ohio murders, he would first have to serve out his New Mexico sentence.

    However, in the event that Madondo is handed the death penalty in Ohio, then that would in all probability be the first sentence to be carried out following an exhaustive process of appeals.

    In Ohio Madondo faces a charge of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary for the killing of Hilder.

    Aggravated murder carries the death penalty in Ohio and according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction the last execution was carried out in January last year.

    There are currently 139 men and one woman in the Ohio on death row with the next execution scheduled for January 2017.

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    Convicted killer to stand trial in 2011 slaying of Akron bank executive
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    A man serving a prison sentence for two murders in New Mexico has been brought to Summit County to stand trial in the 2011 killing of a bank executive in Akron.

    Muziwokuthula Madonda, 43, was arraigned Saturday on aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary charges in Akron Municipal Court.

    He is charged in the February 2011 shooting death of Jacquelyn Hilder, a 60-year-old FirstMerit executive.

    A warrant was signed for Madonda in April 2011, but he was first arrested in Texas and faced trial over two killings in New Mexico that were believed to have occurred after Hilder’s death.

    A spokesperson for the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that Madonda is charged in Hilder’s death. He said Madonda is serving a prison sentence after pleading guilty to killing two men in New Mexico.

    According to jail records, Madonda has been kept in a New Mexico correctional facility and will return there after his trial in Akron.

    Madonda was also considered a suspect in a Dayton shooting of a man found dead two days after Hilder was killed.

    Police said Hilder was found shot to death in her condominium on Hampton Ridge Drive. According to detectives at the time, Madonda was trying to rob Hilder, who he knew through a mutual acquaintance.

    Madonda’s case has been bound over to Summit County Common Pleas Court. His arraignment is scheduled for Friday.

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    South African man pleads guilty to 2011 slaying of Akron bank vice president

    By Cliff Pinckard
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    AKRON, Ohio — A 44-year-old South African man guilty of slayings in New Mexico and accused of another murder in Ohio was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the 2011 killing of an Akron woman.

    Muziwokuthula Madonda pleaded guilty in Summit County Common Pleas Court to charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary. All of the charges included gun specifications.

    Authorities say that in February 2011, Madonda went to the home of Jaclyn Hilder, a bank vice president, and fatally shot her. According to prosecutors, Madonda believed Hilder’s boyfriend was keeping a large sum of money at the home. He was going to use the money on a trip to Montgomery County in Ohio, where he planned to kill a man he knew in college and steal his identity.

    Days later, Madonda killed Zenzele Davis Mdadane, 25, also of South Africa, in Butler Township, Ohio, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutors Office. Madonda is accused of driving the victim to a wooded area and shooting him, then taking his possessions and fleeing to New Mexico.

    In March 2011, Madondo fatally shot two men inside a hotel in Tucumcari, N.M. He was arrested by Texas Rangers and a firearm used in all four murders was found his vehicle, authorities say.

    Madondo currently is serving a 24-year prison sentence in New Mexico for two murders he committed there after he fled Ohio. His sentence in Summit County will be served consecutively. He will be eligible for parole in Ohio after 33 years.

    He first will be transferred to Montgomery County to face two counts of aggravated murder, four counts of murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, and two counts of felonious assault.

    “We are all relieved that this criminal will never be on the streets again,” Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said in a statement. “After waiting for 11 long years, I hope Jacyln’s family now has some closure and can begin to heal, knowing this man will not hurt anyone else.”

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