history | January 04, 2026

What did John Formisano do? Former Newark cop sentenced to 79 years in prison over murder of estranged wife

John Formisano, who was sentenced for a few charges including first-degree murder, has been condemned to serve 79 years in jail. The 52-year-old was sentenced on October 3, 2022, by a Morris District Jury.

In 2019, previous Lt. John Formisano killed his alienated spouse Christie Solaro-Formisano (then 37) and endeavored to kill the man Christie was seeing. John Formisano was likewise blamed for settling on a phony 911 decision in the wake of killing Christie, trying to mislead the examination.

A few policing were engaged with the examination. These incorporated the Jefferson Municipality Police Division, the Morris Province Sheriff’s Office Crime location Examination Unit and Sheriff’s Crisis Reaction Group (SERT), and the Livingston Municipality Police Office, among others.

On July 14, 2019, previous Newark Lt. John Formisano killed his alienated spouse, Christie Formisano. At the point when John shot Christie at their Jefferson Municipality home, he was off the clock yet at the same time in his uniform. John likewise harmed a man named Timothy Simonson (then 40), who Christie was seeing in those days.

At around 11:21 pm, 911 a few calls were produced using the region and it was accounted for that the inhabitants heard shots being discharged. In the wake of settling on a phony 911 decision to confound the specialists, John Formisano escaped to his mom’s home in Livingston, New Jersey. Formisano was captured from Livingston at around 2 am neighborhood time.

John Formisano guaranteed that the investigators had lied about different realities of the case. He said:

Formisano additionally yelled about Christie who he had killed back in 2019. During his preliminary, he said likewise started faulting Christie for whatever happened to her. To this, Judge Michael C. Gaus was enraged and said that it one of the most self-centered assertions from a respondent that was at any point said in a court.

It was found that Christie and John Formisano were going to get a separation. Observation film caught John pursuing Christie before lethally gunning her down. Judge Gaus said that the recording showing Formisano hunting his significant other like a creature.

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The Appointed authority likewise referenced that when John Formisano was asked by a neighbor what he was doing he said that he was occupied with something significant. Gaus proceeded,

“He’s simply accomplishing some bustling work. Some bustling work. Gunning down his significant other, the mother of his youngsters on the nearby neighbor’s entryway patio while she’s frantically attempting to find support.”
During the terrible episode, John and Christie’s small kids were at the home. Nonetheless, they were safe. Christie’s grief stricken mother Susan reviewed the terrible demise of her little girl and said that it was because of their dad that the youngsters’ experience growing up was broken and broken.

That’s what she added despite the fact that she realized it was anything but a pleasant comment, she loathed John and that she dreaded hearing or seeing him once more.