Woman Charged For Killing Roommate With Tape Dispenser, Shower Rod

[Turd Fergusen]

A New Jersey woman beat a 55-year-old man to death with a tape dispenser and shower rod in a home they shared, authorities said.

Mary Carbone, 56, allegedly attacked Frank Stochel, a local high school janitor, last month at a Manchester Township residence that the victim owned with his wife.

His lifeless body was found on Feb. 24 and Carbone was arrested on murder charges Wednesday, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday.

“Specially, a tape dispenser and a shower rod were recovered from the scene,” prosecutors said in a statement. “The injuries sustained by Mr. Stochel were consistent with the implementation of these items.”

Exactly what led to the slaying is unclear. Manchester Township Police responded to the 6th Avenue home after getting a report of an unresponsive male there, prosecutors said.

“These detectives combed through a ton of forensic evidence to ultimately determine that Ms. Carbone did in fact cause Mr. Stochel’s death,” Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said in a statement.

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https://nypost.com/2020/03/05/nj-woman-charged-with-killing-roommate-with-tape-dispenser-shower-rod/

 

[cubby]

A DIY murder, she been thinking about this one for a while.

 

[Fellofftheporch]

Exactly what led to the slaying is unclear.

I don't really feel like this qualifies as a "Slaying". But what do I know?

 

[BuffettGirl]

I need more details on how a tape dispenser can kill specifically... wanders off into the warehouse to check inventory on tape dispensers...

 

[Satanica]

Some of them are heavy with sand or something in the base, so that's what I'm thinking she used. Probably not the little plastic dispenser.

 

[BuffettGirl]

Some of them are heavy with sand or something in the base, so that's what I'm thinking she used. Probably not the little plastic dispenser.

I was thinking of tape guns... I mean that little saw blade wouldn't hurt a fly!

 

[Fellofftheporch]

I need more details on how a tape dispenser can kill specifically... wanders off into the warehouse to check inventory on tape dispensers...

I could totally see someone using tape dispenser. If all is fair in love and war... then the heaviest object within reach is fair game. So if I was ever attacked here at work I can honestly say that my tape dispenser would be on my top 3 right behind my letter opener and tying with my hole puncher (now there is a heavy bitch.).
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So I did a little experiment here and my tape dispenser weighs 2lbs 3oz. My hole puncher weighs 1lbs 4oz. So Letter opener, tape dispenser then hole puncher. Don't mess with me at work.

 

[Spider]

Her improvising skills are gonna come in handy in prison.

 

[king4sshole]

The MacGyver Killer! Coming soon to Lifetime Movie Network.

 

[The Night Nurse]

Many questions remain.

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A New Jersey woman beat a 55-year-old man to death with a tape dispenser and shower rod in a home they shared, authorities said.

Mary Carbone, 56, allegedly attacked Frank Stochel, a local high school janitor, last month at a Manchester Township residence that the victim owned with his wife."

What are the details of this "home sharing" arrangement?
What exactly do the murder weapons look like?
How was the defendant able to overpower the victim with these household items?
What the hell started this whole thing anyway?

 

[Sejanus]

Betting it is not her first killing.
Likely beat a woman to death years ago with a crock pot.

 

[EyEgOrE]

I was thinking of tape guns... I mean that little saw blade wouldn't hurt a fly!

clearly you've never caught your finger in one. Those tiny jagged blades are sharp.

 

[BuffettGirl]

clearly you've never caught your finger in one. Those tiny jagged blades are sharp.

Nope, and I even have my own one at home too! I have for 20 years or so. Sounds like it hurts though! I was thinking that the positions was so odd that you couldn't twist it and make it do damage.

 

[myra manes]

I could totally see someone using tape dispenser. If all is fair in love and war... then the heaviest object within reach is fair game. So if I was ever attacked here at work I can honestly say that my tape dispenser would be on my top 3 right behind my letter opener and tying with my hole puncher (now there is a heavy bitch.).
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So I did a little experiment here and my tape dispenser weighs 2lbs 3oz. My hole puncher weighs 1lbs 4oz. So Letter opener, tape dispenser then hole puncher. Don't mess with me at work.

I've got a 3 hole punch in my office at work from sometime in the 70's, it weighs about 15 pounds!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

- It was "kill or be killed'' when Mary Carbone ended roommate Frank Sochel's life in 2020, a defense attorney argued before a judge Friday, seeking leniency for his client.

An assistant prosecutor objected to that characterization of events, saying Sochel suffered 40 different injuries inflicted with three different weapons, among them a tape dispenser and teeth. Carbone, 60, also admitted attacking 55-year-old Sochel with a shower curtain rod on Feb. 23, 2020.

Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan, in sentencing Carbone to 10 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter, said the defendant and victim - who were roommates in Manchester and sometimes lovers - shared a relationship that was mutually abusive.


"The defendant and the victim engaged in a mutually toxic relationship,'' Ryan said.

They "abused alcohol and abused each other,'' the judge said. "The parties drank too much and they fought.''

Carbone had been set to go to trial for Sochel's murder when, on July 8, she accepted an offer to plead guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated manslaughter in an agreement calling for the 10-year prison term.

Carbone, before her sentence was imposed, expressed hope that the victim's family could heal and find closure.

"I am so deeply sorry,'' she said. "I couldn't even imagine, my heart breaks for them.''

She said she pleaded guilty so Sochel's family would not have to endure a trial.


She also said she didn't want anyone talking bad about Sochel.

"He's to be remembered as a father and a husband and an uncle, and everything else, and a most bright light,'' she said.

Carbone must serve 85 percent of the prison term, or 8 1/2 years, before she can be considered for release on parole, under the state's No Early Release Act. Since her arrest in 2020, she has already served about 4 1/2 years of the term while in jail awaiting the outcome of the case.

Manchester woman gets 10 years for killing roommate in 'mutually toxic relationship'

Mary Carbone was set to offer a battered woman's defense at trial before pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of Frank Sochel.

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[Josh P]

The kind of woman that if you were on fire, she'd use a brick to extinguish the flames.