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'Crazy Eddie' gets life for ax murder said Reddish hit Wertz 24 times with the hatchet. But his attornies said Reddish never meant to torture the pair. They said Reddish suffered from emotional problems and was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol at the time. Reddish also is awaiting trial in Camden County for the slaying of Yeda Sharon Rosenthal, 32, of Cherry Hill, who disappeared in 1991. Reddish has confessed to killing Rosenthal, but her body has not been found.

month of hacking Wertz, 43, to death after the couple argued in his Burlington Township home. Reddish forced Wertz's 14-year-old daughter to watch the attack. Then he sexually assaulted the girl for several hours. Jurors delivered their sentencing decision at about 3 p.m. yesterday after deliberating for just more than 2V2 hours.

Ronca had asked the jury to sentence Reddish to death by lethal injection, arguing that Reddish deliberately tortured Wertz and her daughter. Police have Associated Press A New Jersey man convicted of hacking his girlfriend to death with a hatchet has avoided the death penalty. Instead, Charles "Crazy Eddie" Reddish will spend the rest of his life in prison forlris 1995 murder of Rebecca Wertz, a jury decided yesterday. "Charles Reddish is going to die in prison, and he deserves it," said James A. Ronca, assistant Burlington County prosecutor.

Reddish, 37, was convicted last who was imprisoned in 1992. There was no information in the court papers about the nature of the "family secret" or what the "five sentences" might be. The brief transcripts were released in connection with the federal racketeering trial of the younger Gotti, 34. His lawyers are trying to keep the prison tapes out of evidence, but the prosecution says the Gottis' words show they knew they were being taped. Conversations during prison visits are conducted by telephone.

During another father-son visit at the federal prison in Marion, 111., the elder Gotti told his son they put him in Booth 6 for the visit "because that is where the bug is." And on another occasion he said, "They listen to every word I say in here." During a 1996 visit, the younger Gotti said, "There's so much you'd like to talk about but to have these people know your business. The charges against "Junior" Gotti center on the government's claim that he had supervisory authority in the Gambino crime family after his father was imprisoned. Tapes of father-son conversations may be offered at trial to support that contention. (Oiottihas 'family secret' Fed bugs stop him from telling son Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. John Gotti has a "family secret" that he is afraid to reveal to his son, apparently because of endless surveillance at the federal prison where he's serving a life term, according to prosecutors transcripts released yesterday.

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