By STEPHANIE BARISHwpix.com
4:39 PM EDT, April 23, 2010
SOMERVILLE, N.J. (WPIX) - A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to strangling his girlfriend in a Jersey Shore motel room and using a hacksaw to dismember her body.
Alphonse Capell, 34, of Somerset, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated manslaughter and desecrating human remains. As part of a plea deal, a judge sentenced him to a 30-year prison term, with no parole for 17 years.
Capell initially was charged with first-degree murder, and if convicted, could have been sent to prison for life.
During court proceedings, Capell admitted in that he and his 33-year-old girlfriend, Coty Micklo, were arguing in a Seaside Heights motel in October 2006 when he attacked her. Capell told prosecutors he put his hands around her throat, strangling her to death.
In a panic, Capell said he decided to dispose her body by chopping it up into pieces by using a hacksaw. Her remains were found a year later in Capell's car parked at a Franklin Township apartment complex.
Capell allegedly covered up the crime buy using Micklo's email address and cell phone to send messages to her family, claiming she was pregnant and needed space.
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