10/27/2022
A Jersey man charged with killing a co-worker in her home during lunch faces new charges that he conspired with another inmate to commit a copycat crime that would cast doubt on his guilt, authorities said Thursday.
Kenneth Saal, 30, formerly of Lindenwold, has been held in the Middlesex County Jail for more than three years since being charged with first-degree murder in the death of Carolyn Byington in her Plainsboro apartment.
Byington, 26, who worked with Saal at a marketing firm in West Windsor, was found beaten and stabbed to death in her Plainsboro apartment in June 2019 after she went home for lunch. Saal was arrested two months later.
Prosecutors on Oct. 13 received a letter alleging that Saal was planning to âcommit a copycat murder to create doubt about his guilt,â the prosecutorâs office said in a statement.
A prosecutorâs detective investigated and determined that Saal had solicited a fellow inmate he believed was being released from jail to commit a murder that would exonerate Saal.
The prosecutorâs office alleges that Saal was willing to pay the inmate $15,000 to commit the murder.
Saal was charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree conspiracy to tamper with a witness, and second-degree conspiracy to hinder his own prosecution. Saal is scheduled to appear in court on the new charges on Friday, according to his attorney, Brian J. Neary, of Hackensack.
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