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February 3, 2014
An Old Bridge woman was bound, gagged, beaten and strangled before she was set on fire in her bedroom in 2010, an autopsy showed.
Frederick Dicarlo, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Petra Rohrbaugh, 52, told a jury in New Brunswick that the woman’s hands were bound by cloth behind her, and a band of cloth was in her mouth, over her teeth and tied behind her neck.
Dicarlo said there was evidence that Rohrbaugh had been beaten as well as being strangled before she was set on fire.
Dicarlo was testifying in the fourth day of the trial of Robert Hayes, who is charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated sexual assault, burglary, arson, hindering his own apprehension, hindering the investigation into Rohrbaugh’s death and desecration of human remains for setting the bedroom on fire after attacking the victim.
The medical examiner said that when he arrived at the house on April 8, 2010, Rohrbaugh was bent over her bed, her burned head was buried in the mattress, and her knees and legs were on the ground. The left side of her body and her head were burned severely.
Dicarlo estimated that Rohrbaugh was dead about 36 hours before her daughter, Annika Werner, found her mother the morning of April 8, 2010.
He said he found the remains of the clothes used to tie her hands by her left wrist and on her right wrist, along with the gag in her mouth and around her neck.
Werner testified Thursday that her mother had spurned sexual advances made by Hayes, who was staying in the vacant home of a friend next door to Rohrbaugh’s home on Hilltop Boulevard in the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge.
She said she told her mother, a music teacher and organ player at a church in Keansburg, to call the police and report Hayes, but her mother didn’t want to get the police involved.
Rohrbaugh moved to Cliffwood Beach in September 2009 from Maryland to be closer to Werner and her children.
The trial will resume Tuesday before Superior Court Judge Michael Toto.
