Michael A. Zappley was arrested in 2020, after police found 106 bones belonging to a missing person

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Michael A. Zappley pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the 2016 death of Miguel Martinez III

Martinez’s disappearance was reported in June 2016 and the case went cold until a witness told investigators he was killed in 2016, leading to the discovery of 106 bones across multiple New Jersey properties

Zappley was sentenced to 12 years in prison and must serve 85% of his sentence before he’s eligible for parole

A New Jersey man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday, Sept. 18, a decade after he killed a man and buried the…

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