Leonia janitor in court for murders of girlfriend, girl, 5

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia middle school custodian accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and then suffocating her 5-year-old daughter because she witnessed the murder was brought into a packed Hackensack courtroom this afternoon for his first appearance on two first-degree counts of murder and other offenses.

Jerry DeMarco

01/31/2013 7:43 p.m.

Tammy Gaddy (Dwight Morrow High School 1990)

Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi ordered that 34-year-old Michael C. Brady of Teaneck remain held on $2 million bail during a brief court hearing.

Brady, represented by Paul Giblin Jr. (photo above), didn’t say anything other than to enter a not-guilty plea — a legal technicality.

Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Kearney read the charges with no further remarks.

Michael Brady (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia)

Brady is charged with the cold-blooded killings of 40-year-old Tam Marie “Tammy” Pitts-Gaddy and young Natasia, whom prosecutor say he asphyxiated with a plastic bag.

Family members confronted Brady on Tuesday after not being able to reach Pitts-Gaddy — and he, in turn, went with them to her Englewood apartment, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.

When he got there, he “acted as if he discovered the bodies when he entered through the window,” the prosecutor said.

The 6-foot-1-inch, 210-pound Brady — a citizen of Jamaica who has been in the U.S. since he was 10 — had been dating Pitts-Gaddy for three years. READ MORE….

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