A New Jersey corrections officer confessed to killing two women because he was upset his Cougar girlfriend wasn’t returning his calls.
John P. Menendez, 23, was charged with two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his 40-year-old girlfriend, Anna Shpilberg, and her friend, Luiza Shinkarevskaya, also 40.
Police recovered a 9mm handgun registered to the former Hudson County corrections officer nearby, according to court documents obtained by the NY Post.
Police responding to 911 reports of gunshots on Tuesday found Shinkarevskaya dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a Jiffy’s parking lot near Newark Liberty Airport.
While police were still at the scene, a bloodied Menendez approached them and confessed to killing Shinkarevskaya and his girlfriend, Shpilberg.
He said he shot Shpilberg, a dental hygienist, because he was angry she ignored his calls while on vacation with Shinkarevskaya.
“I can’t believe I did this. Just arrest me, bro,” he told police.
He then directed cops to a Mercedes-Benz C300 parked near Newark Penn Station. Shpilberg was found dead in the passenger seat with a bullet wound to the head, court papers say.
Menendez told police that both women were returning on a flight at the airport and that he was scheduled to pick them up, according to court documents.
Shpilberg’s former fiancé, Fabian Goni, told police Menendez was controlling and regularly demanded she “report to him” on her whereabouts.
“He wanted texts and videos as proof of where she was,” Goni said.
Menendez is being held without bond at the Essex County Jail.
