Overview

• An autopsy by the Gloucester-Camden-Salem County Medical Examiner’s Office found Lichtfuss died of asphyxia and ruled the manner of death a suicide.
• Corrections officers discovered him unresponsive in his Camden County jail cell shortly after 11 p.m. on Sept. 19, and he was pronounced dead later that night despite lifesaving efforts.
• The New Jersey Attorney General directed an independent investigation of the in-custody death, with oversight from the office’s Integrity and Accountability Office, and officials said findings will be submitted for review.
• Lichtfuss, 53, had been convicted on Sept. 18 of first-degree murder for the 2021 strangling of his wife, Stefanie Caraway, after a six-day trial and about 45 minutes of jury deliberation.
• Investigative records state he confessed to placing Caraway in a chokehold during an early-morning argument, and police previously ruled her death a homicide from neck compression.