Overview

• Shawn Lichtfuss, 53, was found guilty of first-degree murder on Sept. 18 in the 2021 strangling of his wife, Stefanie Caraway, after a six-day trial and roughly 45 minutes of jury deliberation.
• Corrections officers discovered Lichtfuss unresponsive in his Camden County Correctional Facility cell the following night, and he was pronounced dead after lifesaving measures failed.
• An autopsy by the Gloucester-Camden-Salem County Medical Examiner determined the cause of death was asphyxia and ruled the manner of death a suicide.
• The New Jersey Attorney General assigned the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an independent investigation overseen by the Integrity and Accountability Office, with findings to be submitted for review.
• Caraway, 38, was found dead in the couple’s Voorhees home on Aug. 3, 2021, and documents report Lichtfuss confessed to putting her in a chokehold; court records also cite prior sexual offenses, mental-health struggles, and extremist vandalism.