Denise Marie Nagrodski, 52, tried to hire a hit man to kill her daughter's ex-boyfriend and two others.
Denise Marie Nagrodski's vengeance "knew no bounds."
Denise Marie Nagrodski, 52, of Forks Township, was sentenced to 10 years in New Jersey state prison for arranging with an undercover detective to kill her daughter's ex-boyfriend and two others, state authorities said. (Courtesy of N.J. Attorney General's Office)The 52-year-old Forks Township woman was sentenced Friday to 10 years in New Jersey state prison for initiating a murder-for-hire plot intended to kill three people, according to the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
She pleaded guilty June 25 to first-degree attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Nagrodski was arrested in November after trying to hire a hit man -- who was actually an undercover New Jersey State Police detective -- to kill her daughter's ex-boyfriend, as well as the boyfriend's sister and the sister's boyfriend in Somerset County.
State police were tipped off to Nagrodski's intentions by the New York City Police Department Intelligence Division, the attorney general's office said. She met with the undercover detective Nov. 21 at the Phillipsburg Mall in Lopatcong Township.
She paid the detective $500 and told him she wanted the ex-boyfriend burned alive, the release said. She said the man had abused her daughter and caused her to miscarry twins.
The boyfriend's sister and her boyfriend were to each be shot twice in the forehead, "one for each twin," according to the attorney general. Because she couldn't provide a gun, she settled on having the hit man "bash in" their heads and set the house on fire, the release said.
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Nagrodski was arrested Nov. 24 after leaving a second meeting with the detective at the mall in which she provided photos of the intended victims, drew him a map to the house where she believed all of the victims lived, and paid him another $500, the attorney general said.
"If Nagrodski had succeeded in her gruesome plot, three people would have been murdered in horrific fashion," said Acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman. "This investigation didn't just serve justice - it saved lives."
Elie Honig, director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, said, "Nagrodski's vengeance knew no bounds," but that her "her violent impulses will be bounded by prison bars for many years to come."
Nagrodski was sentenced Friday by Judge Robert Reed in New Jersey Superior Court in Belvidere. She must serve eight and a half years before she is eligible for parole, the attorney general said.
Pennsylvania State Police assisted in Nagrodski's arrest, the release said.
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