Invader Pleads Guilty To Killing Two Boys With Claw Hammer


Richard Toledo, wearing a hearing device to listen to a Spanish interpreter,
pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping.


TOMS RIVER– Richard Toledo pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping this morning before Superior Court Judge Barbara A. Villano in the claw-hammer murders of two Stafford boys in 2006.

Toledo is facing a maximum sentence of 30 years to life in prison for the murder of Karlo Gonzalez, 14 and life without any parole for killing Karlo’s brother Zabdiel Gonzalez, 7-years-old.

Toledo also is facing a maximum of 30 years in prison for the kidnapping of the boys’ mother Wanda Gonzalez.

Toledo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, rented a room in the family’s home in the Ocean Acres section of Stafford Township. Authorities say that after beating and strangling the boys, Toledo abducted their mother Wanda Gonzalez at knifepoint and forced her to withdraw $500 from a local ATM.

He then headed north on Garden State Parkway, police said, and stopped at a Monmouth County rest stop where Gonzalez was able to break free and call the police. Toledo was arrested several hours later.

In November 2006, Toledo pleaded not guilty.

Toledo would have gone on trial for the murders in May.
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