Joseph Quiros-Soto allegedly told police in 2024 about the 1989 killing of Mauricio Cuadra
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- Mauricio Cuadra was killed after an unknown man broke into a New Jersey residence where Cuadra was present with his girlfriend and her two children
- Mauricio Cuadra reportedly tried to fight the intruder with a crowbar in self-defense, police say
- Authorities allege Quiros-Soto provided details of the crime only the killer would know
A Georgia man allegedly confessed to a killing in New Jersey more than three decades later, soon after first sharing the secret with a pastor.
Joseph Quiros-Soto, 62, was arrested last week in connection to the fatal shooting of 48-year-old Mauricio Cuadra in August 1989, in Bayonne, N.J., the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The killing occurred after an unknown man broke into Cuadra’s Bayonne home on Aug. 9, 1989, prosecutors said; Cuadra was pronounced dead soon thereafter…