The Bergen County man who police said fatally shot himself in Lyndhurst this week while trying to avoid arrest was charged with murdering a woman who disappeared more than a year ago.
Brendan R. Trivisonno, 38, the homeowner of the house where the SWAT standoff occured, was charged for a murder that allegedly occurred March 10, 2025, in Elizabeth, according to a warrant issued in Union County.
In 2025, Trivisonno told NJ.com that police had been questioning him about the disappearance of a woman he had been in a relationship with, Janaina Freire Goncalves, 47, who was last seen on March 10, 2025.
Trivisonno at the time denied involvement in the woman’s disappearance…