Suspect In Google Employee Vanessa Marcotte Homicide Charged With MURDER

A Worcester man accused in the death of Vanessa Marcotte has been formally charged with murder.

Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, was indicted for murder Friday in the Princeton native’s death in Aug. 2016.

Marcotte, 27, had worked for Google in New York City. She was in Princeton visiting her family when she went out for a walk when she did not return.

She was reported missing and her body was later found in the woods not far from her family’s home off Brooks Station Road.

Colon-Ortiz was arrested in April after his DNA matched the DNA profile developed from samples found on the hands of Marcotte.

He had been previously charged with aggravated assault and battery, and assault with attempt to rape.

On April 15, 2017, police detained Ortiz, on Friday night in connection with the slaying of the 27-year-old Google executive, according to reports. Marcotte’s body was found in the woods by a K-9 unit near her Woodlands home on the evening of Aug. 7. After she didn’t return home from a run, her family reported her missing. Police said the woman tried to fight off her attacker. She had burns on her feet, hands, and head when she was found.

In February, the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office announced that they made a DNA breakthrough in the case and said they were searching for an average height Hispanic man in his thirties.

The Google accounts manager was slain within a week of Queens resident Karina Vetrano’s murder.

Vetrano, 30, was also out jogging when she vanished, though no solid connections were ever made between the two murders.