"After years of legal delays and a retrial, a Santa Clara County jury this week convicted Bulos "Paul" Zumot of killing his ex-girlfriend and burning her body in their Palo Alto home in 2009. The jury reached its decision on the 16th anniversary of the murder. Zumot was previously convicted of murder and arson in 2011 for killing Jennifer Schipsi, a 29-year-old real estate agent, on Oct.15, 2009. To hide the crime, prosecutors saud he set their shared Addison Avenue home on fire"
""Justice for Jennifer took far too long," District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement today. "Her family, the Palo Alto police officers, my prosecutors and this community, never forgot her. This week, 16 tragic and frustrating years later, this defendant found out that you can't play the system forever. You can't get away with murder in Santa Clara County.""
"Zumot strangled Jennifer Schipsi to death after she told him she was leaving him and would be reporting him to police. At trial, the evidence showed that Jennifer had told friends, family, police, and even strangers that Zumot had repeatedly threatened to kill her throughout their tumultuous two-year relationship. In a dramatic recording Jennifer made seven weeks before her death, she explained in her own words how Zumot persuaded her to stay with him with promises to change and to go to therapy."
A Santa Clara County jury convicted Bulos 'Paul' Zumot this week of killing his ex-girlfriend and burning her body in their Palo Alto home in 2009. The verdict came on the 16th anniversary after a retrial ordered in 2020 over contested text messages; Zumot had been convicted in 2011 and originally sentenced to 33 years to life. Evidence showed Zumot strangled 29-year-old real estate agent Jennifer Schipsi after she told him she was leaving and would report him, and prosecutors said he set the house on fire to hide the crime. Sentencing is set for Nov. 21 in Morgan Hill and he faces life in prison.
Read at San Jose Inside
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]