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A 20-year-old Guatemalan native who authorities say is living in the United States without authorization repeatedly texted and called his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend for hours before tracking her down and stabbing her to death in September, authorities said.

Bryan Cordero-Castro was indicted on murder charges Monday for allegedly stabbing Madison Wells to death outside a Long Branch home on the night of Sept. 8, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

A grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Cordero-Castro with first-degree murder, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, third-degree attempted escape and fourth-degree stalking, according to a news release.

Wells, a junior at Long Branch High School, had recently broken up with Cordero-Castro at the time of the murder, after a roughly 10-month-long relationship, authorities said.

Cordero-Castro didn't handle the break up well, calling and texting his ex-girlfriend continuously during the nine-hour period leading up to the murder, according to the prosecutor's office. The accused eventually tracked down Wells at a home on Van Pelt Place, where she agreed to meet Cordero-Castro outside to speak to him.

"A few minutes after going outside, Madison stumbled back into the house and collapsed on the floor from the stab wounds to her chest," according to the release. She was pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m.

Cordero-Castro was arrested at his cousin's home on Morris Avenue about two hours after the murder and taken to Long Branch police headquarters, authorities said.
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I wonder what her curfew was?
She spent a whole day with him harassing her. Was she was also enjoying and feeding the drama?
Whether they are the victims, or the source of the problem, teens shouldnt have texting abilities.
 
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Jan 15, 2020
A Long Branch man who admitted last year to killing his 16-year-old girlfriend after their break-up is moving to withdraw his guilty plea.

Bryan Cordero-Castro, 21, filed the motion in Monmouth County Superior Court earlier this month, his attorney Adam Weisberg said, though he declined to discuss his client’s reasoning.
Jan 15, 2020
Cordero-Castro pleaded guilty two months ago to first-degree aggravated manslaughter and an attempted escape charge for killing Madison Wells, an ex-girlfriend who police said Cordero-Castro was stalking in the hours leading up to her death. He is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

Tina Wells, Madison’s sister, said her family hopes a judge rejects Cordero-Castro’s request to back out of his guilty plea.

"We want this over with. We do not wish to go to trial and see pictures of Madison dead,” Tina Wells said. “I do not want to live that terrible night all over again.”

She believes the plea agreement he made with the prosecutor’s office was already too lenient. At his sentencing, prosecutors plan to recommend a 30-year sentence for the aggravated manslaughter charge, and a five-year consecutive sentence for the attempted escape charge.

According to Wells, Cordero-Castro believes he received ineffective legal representation, and did not understand the terms of the plea deal.

Weisberg, Cordero-Castro’s lawyer, said no date has been set for a judge to consider the motion.

“We think he got lucky with 35 years and for him to think he deserves less is truly disgusting,” Wells said.

Authorities have said Cordero-Castro visited one of Wells’ family member’s homes several times on Sept. 8, 2018 in search of Madison, before she finally agreed to talk with him outside a Van Pelt Place residence. He stabbed Wells at about 10:40 p.m. that night and she stumbled back into the home’s living room, where emergency responders found her with stab wounds to the chest.

Cordero-Castro tried to call or text Wells more than 230 times in a nine-hour span before he stabbed her, according to authorities.

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An undocumented immigrant from Guatemala on Friday was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend in New Jersey and then attempting to escape from custody.

Bryan Cordero-Castro, 22, appeared before Superior Court Judge Marc Lemieux at Monmouth County Courthouse and was handed a sentence of 30 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter.

He received an additional five-year prison term on the attempted escape charge, which is to run consecutively to the 30-year sentence.

Cordero-Castro pleaded guilty last November to killing 16-year-old Madison Wells by knifing her in the chest in front of her horrified family at her aunt's home in Long Branch in September 2018.

The attack came after Wells broke up with Cordero-Castro, who refused to accept the split and continued bombarding her with hundreds of text messages.

The defendant later recanted his admission of guilt and made an unsuccessful attempt to withdraw his plea, claiming that his lawyer had deceived him.

Judge Lemieux said on Friday that he was disturbed by Cordero-Castro's change of heart and accused him of taking no responsibility for his crimes, reported Asbury Park Press.

'I see zero amount of remorse and I am extremely concerned this defendant doesn’t get the magnitude of what he has done,' Lemieux said.

The victim's relatives openly poured scorn on Cordero-Castro, hurling expletives at him and telling him to 'burn in hell.'

'You're hated by thousands. You're going to hell,' Madison's older sister, Christina Wells, told the defendant.

During sentencing, the judge said Wells' family had desperately tried to protect her from Cordero-Castro, but instead they were force to witness her killing.

'Her family members literally watched her die on the floor,' he said.

Cordero-Castro was arrested at his cousin’s home on Morris Avenue in Long Branch two hours later.

Once at the Long Branch Police Department, Cordero-Castro attempted to escape by jumping up and trying to run out of the booking room after shouting, 'bye,' but he was quickly caught.

Under the provisions of the 'No Early Release Act,' Cordero-Castro will be required to serve 85 per cent of the term before becoming eligible for parole.
 
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