Former Detective Testifies on Falsified Reports of Middletown Murder Trial

In the ongoing trial for the Middletown murder of Kimberly Allen, a former detective has become a defense attorney’s witness to attack the state’s credibility against his client, Patrick Allen, the husband of the victim who is accused of her murder.

Former detective Peter Gozsa testified at the Monmouth County trial on Wednesday in regards to a joke he once made about he and members of his crime scene unit smoking a “fat marijuana cigarette” from found contraband seized at the scene of the Allen’s home, according to the Asbury Park Press.

The joke Gozsa made was included in the final crime scene report, costing the detective his job, according to Gozsa’s testimony to jurors.

Gozsa blamed a lack of proofreading for his mistake, and also admitted that he had inserted similar ”jokes” in “one or two” other reports, and even into the reports of other detectives.

Gozsa resigned from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office last year due to the falsification of the reports, and is now employed as a pharmacist.

The Middletown murder trial has revealed evidence last month that the Allen’s were over $600,000 in debt at the time of Kimberly’s murder on November 18, 2011. Prosecutor’s believe that Kimberly had been unaware of the depth of the couple’s financial troubles, and had discovered the truth that day. They allege that her husband Patrick struck her in the head with a frying pan, found dented near the victim at the scene, after a heated argument.

Allen’s attorney maintains that his client, a securities salesman, came home that day to find his wife of 20 years had been the victim of a violent attack. On Wednesday, jurors were played a recording of the 911 call Allen made, in which he said, “My wife has been attacked or something. I don’t think she’s breathing,” while sobbing and asking for an ambulance to be sent to their home.

Police arrived on the scene to find the victim, a mother of two boys, dead from apparant blunt impact injuries to her head. A medical examiner later determined that the cause of death was homicidal violence, and besides the blunt impacts from what was later found to be a frying pan, the victim had also died of asphyxiation.

As a result of the investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Middletown Township Police Department, Allen was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife on the same day she was found.

A grand jury indicted Allen, 45, of Middletown, in January 2013 with first-degree murder, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, third-degree hindering the apprehension of another, and fourth-degree tampering with physical evidence.

His trial is currently underway at Monmouth County Superior Court in Freehold.