A convicted killer pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the 2016 killing of a man whose body was found in a trash can early New Year's Eve 2016.
Thomas Green, 65, faces 20 years in prison with a mandatory 85 percent under the No Early Release Act in the killing.
The body of Ricky Ward, 52, was found by a resident at about 8:45 a.m. in a trash can in the 1200 block of Adriatic Avenue, between North and South Carolina avenues.
An Atlantic City man has been charged with murder after a man was found dead inside a trash can Saturday morning. Investigators spent most of Saturday morning at a scene where the body of Ricky Ward, 52, was found in a trash can in the 1200 block of Adriatic Avenue, between North and South Carolina
Green admitted Thursday that he hit Ward in the head with a rock and then put his body in the trash can.
At his first court appearance in January 2017, Green appeared confused, asking where Holyfield was and telling the judge that that was "the guy I hit with the stones."
Green also referred to himself as King Green of the United Nations.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 5.
Green went to prison
in 1977 on a second-degree murder charge, records show.
The charge is not listed in the courthouse’s computer system, Promis Gavel, and the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office was not previously able provide BreakingAC with any details about the killing.
Green served less than 10 years, his DOC record shows, getting paroled Nov. 26, 1985.
On April 3, 1987, he was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated assault. He was released June 10, 1990, after maxing out on that sentence.
He then got a drug possession charge in 1997, and was released Nov. 3, 1998.
His record appeared clean after that until the Dec. 30, 2016, attack.
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