NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Authorities say a man charged with killing a Montville teen who disappeared more than a decade ago told a prison cellmate he killed her and then dumped her body in the ocean in Rhode Island.
Those details are included in an arrest warrant affidavit for George Leniart that was unsealed Thursday. The 42-year-old prisoner at Corrigan Correction Center in Uncasville pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and three counts of capitol felony.
He was charged earlier this month with killing April Dawn Pennington, who had been missing since 1996.
Leniart was already in prison because he is accused of a sexual assault involving a teenage boy.
Leniart told a cellmate that he choked the girl during sex and then realized she was dead. The affidavit says Leniart told his cellmate he transported the body to a fishing boat in Rhode Island, chopped up her body and dumped her in the water.
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