May 6, 2010 2:53 pm US/Eastern

Woman Pleads Guilty In NJ Teen's Death

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) ― A woman charged in the 2006 death of a New Jersey teen whose body was found in a trash bin after a night of partying in New York City has pleaded guilty to kidnapping.

Krystal Riordan, who also pleaded guilty Thursday to hindering apprehension, faces up to 40 years in prison when she's sentenced June 24. The court appearance came about a month after she had rejected a plea bargain offered by Hudson County prosecutors and said she would stand trial.

Riordan faced numerous charges in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Moore of Harrington Park. Riordan's boyfriend, Draymond Coleman, pleaded guilty to murder charges in March.

Prosecutors say Coleman spotted Moore walking alone on Manhattan's West Side Highway, picked her up and took her to a Weehawken hotel room, where she was sexually assaulted and strangled.

In guilty plea, Weehawken hotel killer tells judge he and woman friend had sex with, then murdered teen girl

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A New York man pleaded guilty yesterday to strangling to death an 18-year-old woman in a seedy Weehawken hotel in 2006 - after he and a woman friend had sex with her.

As a result of the plea, Draymond Coleman, 38, faces up to 50 years in prison for the murder of Jennifer Moore on July 25, 2006.

Coleman agreed to provide a sworn statement implicating his codefendant, Krystal Riordan, 28.

With hands cuffed behind his back and speaking in a soft voice Coleman admitted in a Jersey City courtroom yesterday that Moore and Riordan were at the Park Avenue Hotel the day the teen died.

He said at one point Moore left the building but he and Riordan followed her, brought her back in and both had sex with the victim.

Coleman was led through his plea by his lawyer, Anthony Gualano, who then asked "After, did you strangle Moore?"

"Yes," Coleman said.

"Intentionally?" Gualano asked.

"Yes," Coleman replied.

"To kill her?" Gualano continued.

Wow, this is indeed a parent's worst nightmare. I feel for her family and friends. I hope Riordan and Coleman get the maximum sentence

Killing suspect advertised sex services

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Investigators say a young prostitute charged with watching as her boyfriend killed a New Jersey teenager placed an online ad offering sex the next day.

Police told the New York Daily News that Krystal Riordan posted her craigslist.com ad on July 26, the day after Jennifer Moore was killed in a motel in Weehawken. She used the name "Lisa" and offered a $150 special.

Draymond Coleman allegedly found Moore walking along the West Side Highway drunk and brought her back to the Park Avenue Motel in a taxi. Moore, 18, of Harrington Park, N.J., had come into the city with a friend to go to a nightclub in Chelsea.

Police say Riordan, angry about paying for the cab and about Coleman bringing Moore to their motel room, watched as he raped and killed her and then helped him dispose of the body.

Riordan is being held in Hudson County in New Jersey.
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Prostie posted ad after slay?

BY ROBERT F. MOORE and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

The baby-faced hooker who allegedly watched while her ex-con boyfriend raped and strangled a New Jersey teen tried to sell herself for sex on craigslist a day after the murder, police sources said.

Krystal Riordan, charged with helping Draymond Coleman ditch the body of 18-year-old Jennifer Moore, tried to make money by billing herself as "Lisa" on the popular online flea market, a police source said.

The 20-year-old posted her ad July 26 - just a day after police say Coleman strangled and suffocated Moore as Riordan watched, and did nothing.

"Cold-hearted, to say the least," said another police source.

Riordan billed herself as a New Jersey escort working out of Weehawken, where the murder occurred.

Her ad offered a "$150 special."

Cops said that after Riordan watched the murder in a cheap motel, she helped Coleman, 34, stuff Moore's body in a suitcase and toss it in a Dumpster.

Riordan's family said the troubled young woman was under Coleman's thumb, and had been selling her body throughout their two-year relationship to meet his demands for money. The couple has a year-old daughter.

Coleman, a small-time pimp, is charged with murder. Riordan is accused of tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution.

Coleman allegedly enticed Moore into a taxi as she stumbled drunken and lost along the West Side Highway after a night of partying at the Guest House in Manhattan.

The duo rode to the Park Avenue Hotel in Weehawken, where security video revealed Coleman half-carrying Moore through the lobby.

Riordan was apparently furious that Coleman brought another woman to the motel where the couple had been staying - and then stuck her with paying for the taxi ride.