Nanny Murder Suspect In Court On Unrelated Rape Charge
Suspect Faces Trials In Coral Springs Rape, Boca Raton Murder
POSTED: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- A man accused of killing a South Florida nanny was in court Wednesday morning to face charges that he also raped a Coral Springs teenager.
Investigators said that Jerry Wiggins raped the 14-year-old girl months before he kidnapped, raped and murdered nanny Monica Rivera-Veldizen.Wednesday, Wiggins pleaded not guilty and was assigned a public defender in the Coral Springs case.The judge also ordered that a DNA mouth swab be taken from Wiggins.He will be back in court on May 12 for another hearing. There is no word from Palm Beach County on when he will be moved there to face charges in Rivera-Veldizen's murder.Wiggins was arrested in January in the rape of a Charlotte, N.C., woman. The woman picked Wiggins, whom she knew as "Jay," out of a lineup.Investigators said DNA from the Charlotte rape matched DNA in the murder of Rivera-Veldizen. She disappeared from a Boca Raton Publix supermarket on West Palmetto Park Road Jan. 2, 2004. Her body was found Jan. 5 in bushes a short distance from the home where she was living and working.Slideshow: The Nanny Murder Investigation The DNA from the North Carolina rape also matched DNA in the rape of the Coral Springs girl.Wednesday at 8 a.m., Wiggins will appear before Judge Michael Kaplan on sexual battery and lewd and lascivious behavior charges.
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Previous Stories:
- February 10, 2005: Man Charged With Boca Raton Nanny's Death
- January 21, 2005: North Carolina Police Holding Suspect In Nanny's Murder
- March 31, 2004: Possible New Clue In Nanny's Murder
- March 17, 2004: Man On Tape Identified In Nanny Murder Case
- February 23, 2004: Deputies Following 'Credible' Leads In Nanny's Murder
- January 14, 2004: Surveillance Photos Released In Nanny Murder Case
- January 8, 2004: Detectives: Serial Killer May Have Murdered Nanny
- January 8, 2004: Nanny Murder: FBI Sends Profiler
- January 6, 2004: Police: Nanny May Have Been Victim Of Sexual Predator
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