Ex-day labourer pleads guilty in socialite bludgeoning death
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A former day labourer who bludgeoned a socialite to death at her family’s suburban New York estate has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
The Journal News says Esdras Marroquin Gomez pleaded guilty on Monday and admitted to killing 83-year-old Lois Colley at her 300-acre (1.2-square-kilometre) North Salem estate in November 2015.
Authorities said Gomez hit Colley with a fire extinguisher during a confrontation. They said he said he had been injured at the family’s property, Windswept Farm, and had been pursuing a worker’s compensation claim.
He fled to his native Guatemala and then Mexico before he was apprehended.