About 7 p.m. Thursday, two detectives walked into the fast-food restaurant the place they believed Timothy Edward Olschafskie labored, the report acknowledged. They discovered him there, put him in handcuffs and took him into custody on a fugitive from justice cost. His bail was set at $1 million.
Olschafskie, 30, of Enfield, appeared the subsequent day in state Superior Court in Hartford, the place his bail was elevated to $1.5 million, court docket data present.
According to the police report, police in Wilmington, Del., have a warrant for his arrest on expenses of first-degree homicide by abuse or neglect and recklessly inflicting the loss of life of a kid. The temporary report doesn’t elaborate on the murder.
Authorities in Delaware stated they plan to extradite Olschafskie, the report stated. He is in custody on the Hartford Correctional Center, jail data present.
Olschafskie, who was charged with killing seven cats and admitted to killing 5 of them, was sentenced on Feb. 6, 2015, to 2 years in jail, adopted by probation.
Seymour police arrested Olschafskie on a cost of second-degree harassment on Aug. 19, 2021, court docket data present. Because of the arrest, he then was charged with violation of probation on Aug. 26, 2021.
He received a suspended sentence adopted by probation when sentenced on Feb. 23, 2022, in line with the data.
‘Watched him die’
At the time of the 2013 cat-killing case, Olschafskie was residing in Windsor Locks along with his fiancée and her household, which included a volunteer with a cat rescue organization. One cat after one other started to die of accidents that the household at first thought was from cat fights, for a complete of seven, in line with the warrant for his arrest on cruelty to animal expenses.
Olschafskie was both the one one home when every severely injured or useless cat was found or was the primary to search out the animal, the warrant stated. And when the animal management officer arrived on the home on July 30, 2013 after one cat was severely injured and a second died, Olschafskie had recent scratches on each of his forearms, “similar to those that would be caused by a cat,” the warrant stated.
More than 4 months later, in line with the warrant, the cat rescuer informed police they overheard a telephone dialog the place Olschafskie admitted to killing 5 of the seven cats. He additionally described how he did it, the warrant stated.
According to the warrant, Olschafskie stated he took a cat named Aladdin out of its cage and threw the animal towards a closet door. He then picked up the cat “and watched him die before laying the cat on the closet floor” and going again to mattress, the warrant acknowledged. Aladdin was discovered useless on the closet ground on July 14, 2013.
He stated he picked up Smoochy and threw that cat towards the wall. He then chased the cat, which jumped up on the windowsill and fell by way of the display as he approached, the warrant stated. Smoochy died July 24, 2013.
