Tonight’s episode of TruTV’s (the channel formerly known as Court TV) Forensic Files focuses on the case of Rachel Siani, the Bucks County stripper who was murdered and thrown from the bridge connecting the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes in March of 2000.
Motorists found her crumpled corpse two days later, under the New Jersey side of a turnpike crossing the Delaware River. Autopsies showed she was choked unconscious before being thrown over 100 feet to her death. Medical examiners found a fractured skull, lacerated kidneys, a punctured liver and blood in her lungs.
One week later, married businessman John Denofa, 36, was arrested at his Pennsylvania home and later extradited to New Jersey.
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Witnesses testified they saw Denofa leave Diva’s club with Siani about 2:30 a.m. on March 29. They went into the adjacent EconoLodge to a room he’d rented.
The prosecution claimed that Denofa choked Siani in the motel room, then threw her unconscious body out of the second-floor window. Finally, he put her in the back of his red Dodge Ram pickup and drove toward New Jersey, where he stopped on the turnpike bridge and dropped her over the side.
Indeed, tollbooth surveillance tapes showed a truck like Denofa’s, with what appeared to be a body sprawled in the back, heading to New Jersey and returning empty.
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