Background: The dumpster where the body of Lucrecia Jadan Sumba was found (WPVI/YouTube). Insets: Lucrecia Jadan Sumba and her husband Rolando Corte (GoFundMe/Essex County Department of Corrections).
A mother of four from New Jersey was murdered by her “husband and life partner” of over 23 years — with police saying she suffered “sharp force injuries” at his hands — before being discarded in a dumpster by him and brushed off as missing, her family alleges.
“Her husband, Rolando Corte, stated that he did not know where she was at and seemed very disinterested of her whereabouts,” a GoFundMe reads for the family of victim Lucrecia Jadan Sumba, who was found dead in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Sumba, 39, of Elizabeth, was allegedly killed by Corte, 42, sometime after Jan. 9, which is when she was reported missing by co-workers after she failed to show up for work that day, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. Sumba’s body was found in a dumpster Saturday in the 200 block of S. 3rd Street in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, and her death was listed as a homicide caused by “sharp force injuries” by the coroner and prosecutor’s office.
Details about what caused the injuries have not been released. Corte has been charged with first-degree murder.
