A Tribeca man confessed on Friday that he brutally beat and slashed his mother’s throat to get his hands on his inheritance.
Jared Eng, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in Manhattan Supreme Court as part of a plea deal for the grisly murder of Paula Chin, 65, in January 2019.
Eng viciously beat and slashed his mom, whom he claimed had $11 million in the bank, during an altercation between the two at an apartment they shared in Tribeca. He stated his actions were in hopes to try and speed up collecting his inheritance.
After the gruesome murder, Eng sanitized the apartment with his girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. The pair then transported his mother’s remains in Chin’s own car, a 2004 Toyota Land Cruiser, to the family home in Morristown, NJ.
Eng’s other lover, Caitlyn O’Rourke, joined the couple in New Jersey the following Feb. 1, where she helped stuff Chin’s body into a garbage can that was left on the property.
The mother was reported missing by Eng’s older brother Brandon and cops soon found her decomposing remains in the trash bin the next day.
Investigators found bloody rubber gloves in the garbage and bloodstains on the New Jersey residence’s garage floor. More bloody gloves, along with blood traces, were found inside the Tribeca apartment.
In a series of multiple text messages after the murder, Eng reported, “It’s done.”, “I’m free.”, and “I got rid of my problem.”
He then proceeded to change he passwords on Chin’s bank accounts, searching for inheritance lawyers and researching ways to dispose of his mom’s corpse, including a chilling Google search for “DIY bone meal.”
“This was a brutal and shocking murder of the defendant’s own mother, and while nothing can undo this tragedy, today’s guilty plea represents an important step towards justice,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
Lopez and O’Rourke are charged with lesser crimes, including the concealment of a human corpse. Their cases are still pending.
Eng is scheduled to be sentenced to a minimum of 18 years to life in prison on Oct. 18.
