#Teens charged in gruesome death of New Jersey woman dumped in creek

A 19-year-old New Jersey man was charged with murder and desecration of human remains after allegedly killing a woman with the help of her 14-year-old daughter — and weighing the body down with cinderblocks and kitty litter in the bottom of a creek, according to a report.

Nicolas Coirazza, of Lodi, was accused of stabbing Divna Rosasco, 51, multiple times in her Cresskill home and then getting the girl to help him dump her mother’s body in Teaneck’s Overpeck Creek, the Daily Voice reported, citing authorities.

The girl’s father had reported the victim missing about 12:20 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said, according to the news outlet.

A sheriff’s deputy on patrol later found Rosasco’s bloodied SUV parked near a boat ramp, he said. Its license plate was bent in an apparent attempt to remove it.

Bergen County Prosecutor’s Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti told the news outlet that Rosasco’s body was located in about four feet of water with help from the K-9 unit.

Her body was tied with duct tape, wrapped in a bedsheet with a plastic bag around her head, and weighed down with bucket filled with concrete and kitty litter, among other items, Anzilotti said.

A police officer later stopped an Uber at a nearby hotel parking lot that Coirazza and the girl tried to leave in, according to Musella, who said the suspect was “known to the family.”

Coirazza was charged with first-degree murder, desecration of human remains, tampering with evidence, hindering and weapons possession.

The girl, who has not been named, was charged with juvenile offenses, including disturbing human remains, evidence tampering and hindering apprehension.

Coirazza was being held in the Bergen County Jail pending an appearance in Hackensack court.

The motive in the slaying remains under investigation.