This month marked the start of the much-anticipated murder trial against Sergio Correa, who is accused with his sister Ruth of killing 21-year-old Matthew Lindquist and his parents, Kenneth and Janet, inside the family’s Griswold home before burning it to the ground just before Christmas 2017.
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NEW LONDON Nearly two years after signing a plea agreement with the state, 26-year-old Ruth Correa on Thursday stood in front of a New London Superior Court judge and pleaded guilty to three counts of felony murder in connection with the brutal 2017 deaths of members of a Griswold family.
As part of the agreement, signed in August, 2019, Correa will testify against her stepbrother, Sergio Correa, during his coming trial in exchange for a flat 40-year sentence. If Ruth Correa opted to take her case to trial, she faced a maximum sentence of 180 years, if convicted.
Ruth Correa’s pleas were not unexpected the terms of her plea agreement were mentioned during her sibling’s 2019 probable cause hearing. During that proceeding, Ruth Correa spent hours on the stand largely blaming her brother for the murders of Matthew, Janet and Kenneth Lindquist on Dec. 20, 2017.
NEW LONDON - During the first in-person court proceeding in a Griswold triple-murder case in months, a New London Superior Court judge on Wednesday again denied the defense’s motions for a speedy trial and a change of venue while also quashing a request to halt a warrant application submitted by the state.
The afternoon hearing before Judge Hunchu Kwak was convened to deal with several “housekeeping issues” left unresolved or that had arisen since a suppression hearing in October, said Attorney Joseph Lopez.
Lopez, along with co-councilor Corey Mainville, is representing 29-year-old Sergio Correa on murder, robbery, arson and other charges related to the brutal slayings of Kenneth, Janet and Matthew Lindquist in 2017.