Updated: 25 Feb 2021, 4:47
A CORRECTIONS officer is accused of murdering his girlfriend and her best pal after the women went on a Valentine s Day vacation, authorities allege.
John Menendez, 23, a Hudson County corrections officer from West New York, was charged with the murders of Anna Shpilberg, 40, and Luiza Shinkarevskaya, 40, in Newark, New Jersey.
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John MenendezCredit: Essex County Jail
“I killed both of them - just arrest me, bro,” Menendez, 23, told cops, according to court papers.
Cops first found Shinkarevskaya dead from a bullet to her head on a sidewalk at a Jiffy’s parking lot on Tuesday, February 16.
Shpilberg was later found shot in the passenger seat of her vehicle that same night near Edison Place and Bruen Street in Newark.
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N.J. corrections officer obsessed over girlfriend’s Valentine’s Day getaway to Cancun before double killing, family says
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Luiza Shinkarevskaya, left, with John Menendez and Anna Shpilberg at a party on Nov. 15, 2020. Menendez has been charged with killing the women.Photo courtesy of Mishel Chan-Min
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It was supposed to be a much-needed break from the year of COVID-19 restrictions for Anna Shpilberg and her four friends. She threw together the trip to Cancun, Mexico with less than a month of planning and they found themselves basking in the warm sunshine over Valentine’s Day weekend.
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Friends and family say murder suspect Joe Menendez, 23, from New Jersey, was angry that his girlfriend, Anna Shpliberg, 40, had gone on a trip to Cancun and had been ignoring his calls.