Life imprisonment for killer of five

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · January 20, 1951

Woodbury, N.J.... Ernest Ingenito (left) charged with killing five of his wife's relatives in a wild murder orgy, last November, is pictured after he heard the verdict of guilty of first degree murder by a jury here, last night. Undersheriff Thomas P. Lyons (right) is shown with the prisoner. Ingenito was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment, when the jury asked Judge John B. Wick for a recommendation for mercy for the killer. Incognito was tried for the murder of his mother-in-law, one of the five victims whom he shot down while on a maniacal rampage. Court observers pointed out that the convicted man could be released from the state prison at Trenton, after 14 years on good behavior.