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Christina Prestianni

Case from Nutley, NJ dated Jan 15, 2015

Victim Details

Christina Prestianni

Female

Nutley

NJ

2015-01-15

37

Christina

Prestianni

07/13/2026

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In a quiet Nutley, New Jersey home on Hillside Avenue, a grim discovery was made on Thursday, January 15, 2015. Inside, authorities found the bodies of 37-year-old Christina Prestianni and her live-in boyfriend, 38-year-old Christopher Minichini. Both had sustained fatal gunshot wounds in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide. A preliminary investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office indicated that Minichini, a seven-year veteran of the New Jersey State Corrections, shot Pres ...
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  • NJ.com: Corrections officer shot girlfriend in apparent murder-suicide in Nutley, authorities say
  • NJ.com: Authorities investigating apparent murder-suicide in Nutley
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