Jose Feliciano, the former church custodian convicted of fatally stabbing a priest in 2009, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.
The prosecutor, Robert Bianchi, who handled the case himself and made an impassioned statement, talking about as a “self- centered narcissist” who tore a “path of carnage” that day he killed Hinds. “He was butchered and I can only imagine what must have been going through Father Ed’s mind when he was begging for his life and being tortured.”
Feliciano stabbed the Rev. Edward Hinds 44 times after the priest fired him, according to trial testimony. The crime occurred inside the rectory at St. Patrick Church in Chatham Borough. The defendant contended he had been blackmailed by the priest, but the jury did not buy it.
