A man who once patrolled the halls and cells of the Hudson County Jail in South Kearny will spend 50 years behind bars after he was sentenced July 22 for the murder of his girlfriend and her friend, Essex Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II said.
The succeeding at proving on Feb. 16, 2021, John Menendez, 27, of West New York, picked up his girlfriend, 40-year-old Anna Shpilberg of Randolph and her friend, 40-year-old Luiza Shinkarevskaya of Newark, at Newark Airport after they returned from a trip to Mexico.
Menendez drove the victims to an off-airport parking lot where he shot his girlfriend in the head. Menendez then shot Shinkarevskaya four times. They died of their injuries…