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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6d656801a537017fbdd5d00a8eb42153 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#290606;font-size:14px"><strong>Long Island teacher, charging documents state, brutally murdered his wife&#8217;s sister at their shared home in North Massapequa, Nassau County &#8211; his wife was not at home at the time </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cccf2e45a528466518140e9653936f30 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#290606;font-size:14px"><strong>Joseph Horner, 27, admitted to the brutal murder of his sister-in-law, Victoria Castle, 25, whom he sexually assaulted before strangling her while his wife was away on a bachelorette trip </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6d5e2017d0cf49cd0947d6c7c858aca7 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#290606;font-size:14px"><strong>Horner allegedly told cops that he asked Castle to help him move a piano before attacking her from behind, placing her in a chokehold until she went limp, at which point he stripped and raped her </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-03c9dffdb74ca91fef1226bf33000109 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#290606;font-size:14px"><strong>After the rape and murder, Horner allegedly dialed 911 and waited for the cops to show up and admitting to detectives at the scene </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2d170ca1834b5be1417a75eadea6e8f2 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#290606;font-size:14px"><strong>Horner was charged with second-degree murder on a felony complaint<strong>, but has entered a not guilty plea</strong> &#8211; he is being held without bail</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Joseph-Horner-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-499823" style="width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Long Island music teacher rapes Joseph Horner [photo], has been accused of strangling his sister-in-law whom he lusted over for years with wife out of town</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Victoria Castle, a 25-year-old graduate student from the Long Island, New York, was raped and strangled to death last month. <br>The killer is her brother-in-law who authorities said has been obsessed with her.<br>Ironically when Joseph Horner married her sister, Alexia, Castle gushed over him as “one of the most wonderful people in the world,” in a Facebook post.<br>“My sister, my person, my partner in chaos, is now married to one of the most wonderful people in the world,” reads Victoria Castle’s message accompanying a photo of her accused killer Joseph Horner sharing a post-nuptials kiss at their wedding venue.<br>“I love you both forever!”.<br>Fast forward three years and Victoria Castle is brutally assaulted and killed by the same man she gushed over when he joined her family.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Victoria-Castle-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-499825" style="width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Joseph Horner, according to the charging documents, raped and strangled his wife&#8217;s 25-year-old sister-in-law, Victoria castle, [photo], at their shared home in North Massapequa, Nassau County. His wife was not at home at the time </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Long Island doctoral student who was allegedly raped and strangled to death by her obsessed brother-in-law gushed over him as “one of the most wonderful people in the world” in a haunting Facebook post after he married her sister.<br>“My sister, my person, my partner in chaos, is now married to one of the most wonderful people in the world,” reads Victoria Castle’s message accompanying a photo of her accused killer Joseph Horner sharing a post-nuptials kiss at their wedding venue.<br>The post concludes with the now poignant “I love you both forever!” .</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Victoria-Castle-post-praising-Joseph-Horner-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-499826" style="width:830px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Castle allegedly allegedly posted this praise of her newly minted brother-in-law on Facebook when he married her sister. The same man would turn around to rape and murder her, shortly after</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Less than three years later, Horner, 27, stands accused of Castle’s brutal murder, sexually assaulting and then strangling her while his wife was away on a bachelorette trip, cops said.<br>Prosecutors said at his arraignment that Horner was “obsessed” with Castle for more than a decade before the vicious attack, and lusted over the victim for nearly a decade.<br>The attack allegedly took place in their shared North Massapequa home June 29.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Victoria Castle [right], with her sister Alexia &#8220;Allie&#8221; Horner,</strong> <strong>the day her sibling married Joseph Horner, the man now on trial for her murder</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Horner [right], and his wife Alexia, [center], lived in the upstairs apt of the multi-family house in , while his wife&#8217;s sister Vitoria Castle [left], lived in the ground-floor unit in Nassau County, NY</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Horner, a music teacher in the Oceanside School District, lived in the upstairs apartment of the multi-family house with his wife, while Castle, a PhD student at Stony Brook University, lived in the ground-floor unit, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.<br>He allegedly asked Castle, a PhD student at Stony Brook University, to help him move a piano before attacking her from behind, placing her in a chokehold until she went limp, at which point he stripped her naked and raped her, officials said.<br>Afterwards, he called 911 and waited for the cops to show up, admitting to detectives that he had committed the heinous act.<br>CPR was administered, and castle was transported to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Victoria-Castle-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-499830" style="width:840px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Victoria Castle was a PhD student at Stony Brook University</strong> <strong>was found dead in a Massapequa home, when her killer called 911, then waited for cops to arrive to confess his crime</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Joseph-Horner-center-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-499829"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><strong>Joseph Horner [wearing regulation jail uniform], allegedly turned himself in and was arrested at the scene on June 29. Seen escorted by police on June </strong>30, he was charged with second-degree murder on a felony complaint, but has entered a not guilty plea. He is being held without bail</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He was arrested for homicide at the scene.<br>Horner was charged with second-degree murder on a felony complaint.<br>He has entered a not guilty plea and is being held without bail. <br>if convicted as charged, he faces 25 years to life in prison.<br>On Wednesday, the Oceanside School District said Horner had been placed on indefinite leave pending an investigation.</p>

