New Castle: Christine Belford Murder Update: Where Are Her Killer In Jail/Prison Now?

Former New Jersey police officer Thomas Matusiewicz shot and killed Christine Belford and Laura Mulford in the federal courthouse lobby in Wilmington on Feb. 11, 2013. Let us get updated on their murder.

David Matusiewicz, Christine Belford’s ex-husband and the shooter’s son, and his family had been electronically stalking and harassing her for years. The killings resulted in the first-ever convictions for cyberstalking that resulted in death.

While Thomas Matusiewicz committed suicide at the shooting scene, David Matusiewicz, his mother Lenore Matusiewicz, and sister Amy Gonzalez were all found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

In 2016, Lenore Matusiewicz died in prison. While David served time in prison for stealing their children in 2007, Belford faced a years-long online harassment campaign portraying her as a child abuser.

That day, she was in court for a child support hearing.

New Castle: Christine Belford Murder Update

On Feb. 11, 2013, David Matusiewicz and his father Thomas went to the New Castle County Courthouse to confront David’s ex-wife Christine Belford, who was there for a child support hearing in their custody dispute.

After exchanging gunfire with authorities, Thomas Matusiewicz shot Belford and Laura Mulford in the courthouse foyer before killing himself.

According to U.S. prosecutors, the shooting was the conclusion of a four-year campaign of letters, blogs, and Internet postings aimed to stalk, harass, and intimidate’ Belford, the mother of David Matusiewicz’s three children.

Belford was accused of sexually assaulting her oldest daughter by the Matusiewicz family on social media. However, according to NBC 10, the charges were unfounded, and the daughter testified that she had never been abused.

Are Her Killer David, Lenore & Amy In Prison?

For a cyberstalking campaign that resulted in the shooting deaths of the brother’s former wife and her friend in 2013, a man, his sister, and his mother were sentenced to life in prison.

In July 2015, David Matusiewicz, his sister Amy Gonzalez, and his mother Lenore were found guilty of cyberstalking, resulting in death in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

According to federal prosecutors, Matusiewicz’s mother was sentenced to life in prison at her bedside last week at Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia.

According to NBC 10, family members stated the 70-year-old woman is bedridden and has only a few months to live.

U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh sentenced Matusiewicz, 48, and Gonzalez, 43, to life in prison, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware.

Prosecutors claimed it was the first practical application of federal law to such an offense. They were also found guilty of conspiring to commit a crime.

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