2005 Media Releases:

CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
VINCENT P. SARUBBI, CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
MEDIA   INFORMATION

June 17, 2005

Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi announced that Charles Reddish Jr., 44, pleaded guilty to Murder today, admitting that he suffocated Yeda Sharon "Dede" Rosenthal in 1991 in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, negotiated by Assistant Prosecutor Mary Alison Albright, Reddish can receive up to life in prison when Presiding Criminal Division Judge Linda G. Baxter sentences the defendant, scheduled for July 29, 2005. Baxter may impose the sentence either concurrent or consecutive to a life term Reddish is serving for a Murder conviction in Burlington County.

A jury found Reddish guilty of the Cherry Hill Murder in October 2001 and sentenced him to death. The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the sentence and conviction in November 2004 and remanded the case to Superior Court in Camden.

Reddish admitted today to Judge Baxter that he broke into Dede Rosenthal's apartment at the Somerset Towers on Cooper Landing Road in February 1991 by forcing open the balcony door. He then suffocated the victim, he told the judge. Reddish was employed as a maintenance worker at the complex and lived there.

"We will argue for the maximum sentence under the law - life in prison including 30 years without parole, to run consecutive to Reddish's Burlington County sentence," Sarubbi said. "Dede Rosenthal's family and friends have been subjected not only to the tragedy of losing their loved one, but also to a protracted trial and a reversal of the jury's guilty verdict. I am pleased that Assistant Prosecutor Albright was able to achieve this resolution without the need for a second trial."