{"id":5553,"date":"2018-08-03T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2018-08-03T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:00:47","slug":"seaside-heights-man-indicted-in-murder-of-motel-roommate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/08\/seaside-heights-man-indicted-in-murder-of-motel-roommate\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights Man Indicted in Murder of Motel Roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4904\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/imageservlet.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Matthew Demartin\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4904\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/imageservlet.jpeg\" alt=\"Matthew Demartin\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/imageservlet.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/imageservlet-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/imageservlet-336x420.jpeg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Demartin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors on Friday announced that a Seaside Heights man has been indicted in the killing of the woman with whom he shared a borough motel room.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Joseph DeMartin, 37, is alleged to have been behind the death of\u00a0Sharon Falcetano, 59, which occurred Feb. 22. According to prosecutors, Seaside Heights police responded to a 911 call at 11:19 a.m. that morning from the Glendale Motel on Lincoln Avenue reporting a disturbance. When they arrived, they found\u00a0Falcetano un responsive. An autopsy later determined she died of &#8220;multiple blunt force trauma injuries to her head and body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An Ocean County grand jury handed up the indictment this week. DeMartin remains incarcerated in the Ocean County Jail. Prosecutors have not divulged the motive behind the alleged killing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/08\/seaside-heights-man-indicted-in-murder-of-motel-roommate\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors on Friday announced that a Seaside Heights man has been indicted in the killing of the woman with whom he shared a borough motel room. Matthew Joseph DeMartin, 37, is alleged to have been behind the death of\u00a0Sharon Falcetano, 59, which occurred Feb. 22. According to prosecutors, Seaside Heights police responded to a 911 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,8,5],"tags":[1304,1305,20],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-matthew-demartin","tag-murder","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/imageservlet.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}