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FBI joins manhunt for UConn student wanted in killings

By Josh LaBella

ctpost
May 25, 2020

The FBI has joined the search for a University of Connecticut student who police say is connected with two homicides, kidnapping and a home invasion.

Connecticut State Police say Peter Manfredonia, a 23-year-old UConn student, was last seen Sunday evening in East Stroudsberg, Pa.

Earlier on Sunday, police swarmed Osbornedale State Park in Derby, looking for Manfredonia. That morning police found the body of 23-year-old Nicholas J. Eisele, a resident of that city and an acquaintance of Manfredonia, according to state police.

Authorities said Mafredonia was seen in eastern Pennsylvania after Volkswagen Jetta he allegedly stole from Eisele’s Roosevelt Drive home was found in New Jersey, near the Pennsylvania border.

Police said a female victim who Manfredonia abducted from the Derby home was also found safe in Patterson, New Jersey. They said she identified Manfredonia as her captor and that she was unharmed and transported back to Connecticut.

While Eisele’s death was not immediately ruled a homicide, Manfredonia, a Newtown High School graduate and University of Connecticut student, was already sought by police in connection with an assault in Willington that left one man dead and another injured Friday morning.

“The Connecticut State Police is working aggressively to bring this individual to justice,” the agency said in a statement Sunday night.

Manfredonia was described as a white male, 6-foot-3 and weighing 240 pounds, with black “disheveled hair,” and was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt and gray sweatpants. Connecticut State Police said Pennsylvania and New Jersey law enforcement agencies were “actively looking for the suspect,” who authorities have repeatedly referred to as “armed and dangerous.”