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COLD CASE: Two Charged 16 Years After NJ Robbery Victim Is Beaten To Death, Thanks To New Tech COLD CASE: Two Charged 16 Years After NJ Robbery Victim Is Beaten To Death, Thanks To New Tech
Cold CASE: Two Charged 16 Years After NJ Robbery Victim Is Beaten To Death, Thanks To New Tech UPDATE: Leroy Julious had planned on whipping up a celebratory dinner after cashing a bonus check from his cook's job at The College of New Jersey when his brutally beaten body was found in a gravel lot across the street from his Ewing home. Julious's murder went unsolved for 16 years -- until authorities announced that technological advances and a shared mission among various agencies and law enforcement forensic experts cracked the cold case. Breyon Goodman, 36, of Trenton, and Jason Howard, 41, of Providence, R.I. killed Julious during a robbery near his Ewing home on May 9, 2008, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cold Case Murder Of Atlantic City Celebrity 'Cooks Books' Re-Examined 40 Years Later Cold Case Murder Of Atlantic City Celebrity 'Cooks Books' Re-Examined 40 Years Later
Cold Case Murder Of Atlantic City Celebrity 'Cooks Books' Re-Examined 40 Years Later Investigators in Atlantic County are asking for help in solving the murder of a local celebrity in Atlantic City nearly 40 years ago, authorities said. In a news release on Wednesday, March 27, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office asked for public assistance in the investigation into the 1985 killing of Raul Sanchez. He was known to many as "Cooks Books."  Suarez earned the nickname while he was an emcee at the 500 Club in Atlantic City. He was also a radio show host and a taxicab driver. The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office is looking for new information about the 1985…

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by Chris Spiker
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Cigarette Butt Leads To NJ Suspect's Arrest In 2012 PA Diner Killing: DA Cigarette Butt Leads To NJ Suspect's Arrest In 2012 PA Diner Killing: DA
Cigarette Butt Leads To NJ Suspect's Arrest In 2012 PA Diner Killing: DA The alleged gunman in a deadly 2012 Reading shooting is in police custody in New Jersey, according to Berks County prosecutors.  Vallis L. Slaughter, of Jersey City, is being held in Hudson County pending his extradition to Pennsylvania, said the District Attorney's Office on Monday, March 25.  Investigators believe he killed 34-year-old Julio A. Torres on March 24, 2012. Torres was shot while sitting in his car in the parking lot of the West Reading Diner after a confrontation with suspects, the DA's Office said.  Jomaine Case was eventually convicted in connectio…

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by Mac Bullock
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Sussex County Teen Was Found Bound, Dead In Sleeping Bag 50 Years Ago, Cops Seek Clues Again Sussex County Teen Was Found Bound, Dead In Sleeping Bag 50 Years Ago, Cops Seek Clues Again
Sussex County Teen Was Found Bound, Dead In Sleeping Bag 50 Years Ago, Cops Seek Clues Again Authorities are continuing to investigate the murder of a 15-year-old girl whose remains were discovered in a sleeping bag at the bottom of a Northern Westchester cliff more than five decades ago.  More than 50 years after her murder, New York State Police are asking the public for help in solving the murder of 15-year-old New Jersey resident Alice Lezan of Franklin Township, whose remains were found in Cortlandt on Nov. 14, 1970.  On this date, authorities found Lezan's body bound with rope inside a red sleeping bag that was discovered at the bottom of a 60-foot drop ne…

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by Ben Crnic
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Dismembered Body Found In Suitcase By California Fisherman In 1973 ID'd As NJ Mother Dismembered Body Found In Suitcase By California Fisherman In 1973 ID'd As NJ Mother
Dismembered Body Found In Suitcase By California Fisherman In 1973 ID'd As NJ Mother A break in a California cold case has prompted a search for the New Jersey victim's killer, 50 years later. Arminda Grangela Rodrigues da Silva Ribeiro, a Newark mother, has been identified as the victim of a 1973 San Diego killing, according to the SD Crime Stoppers. Her body was found June 13 of that year by a fisherman, in the San Diego Bay between Laurel Street and the US Coast Guard Station. Arminda's body had been dismembered and placed into an orange suitcase and several plastic bags.  In 2020, Arminda's remains were exhumed by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Mom Found Burned Dead In Vacant Lot ID'd As NJ Woman — Now Police Hope To Find Her Daughter Mom Found Burned Dead In Vacant Lot ID'd As NJ Woman — Now Police Hope To Find Her Daughter
Mom Found Burned Dead In Vacant Lot ID'd As NJ Woman — Now Police Hope To Find Her Daughter Known for 30 years as the "Girl with the Scorpion Tattoo," the unidentified victim found brutally murdered on Staten Island has been identified as a New Jersey woman — with a daughter whom authorities are hoping to find. Christine Belusko of Clifton was handcuffed, strangled, beaten and burned in a Staten Island lot, the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office said. In the weeks leading up to her killing, she had been staying at a Mount Airy Lodge near Mount Pocono, PA, authorities said. Now, investigators hope to find Belusko's daughter, Christa Nicole, who would have been two…

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by Jon Craig
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Convicted Killer Charged With Murder In 40-Year-Old NJ Homicide Of Teen Girl: Report Convicted Killer Charged With Murder In 40-Year-Old NJ Homicide Of Teen Girl: Report
Convicted Killer Charged With Murder In 40-Year-Old NJ Homicide Of Teen Girl: Report A man previously convicted of murder has been identified and charged in a 40-year-old cold case involving the killing of a teen girl in New Jersey, WFMZ reports. DNA technology helped investigators identify Arthur Kinlaw — a previously convicted murderer who ran a prostitution ring in the Bronx alongside his wife — as the suspect in the homicide of Long Island resident Dawn Olanick, aka “Princess Doe,” the outlet reports citing Warren County Prosecutor James Pfeiffer. The teenage victim’s identity had been a mystery for decades after she was brutally beaten near Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blai…

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by Valerie Musson
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Discovery Of Human Remains Submerged In PA Waters Cracks 18-Year Cold Case Discovery Of Human Remains Submerged In PA Waters Cracks 18-Year Cold Case
Discovery Of Human Remains Submerged In PA Waters Cracks 18-Year Cold Case The recent discovery of a missing vehicle submerged underwater containing human remains in a suburban Philadelphia town could help police crack a cold case dating back to 2003. Divers who found the vehicle and recovered the remains believe both belong to James Amiable, a Ridley Township man who left to pick his daughters up from a babysitter and never showed up on Dec. 4, 2003. The discovery was made Saturday, March 19, by Adventures with Purpose Underwater Dive and Recovery, a volunteer search and rescue organization that works directly with families. Amabile's vehicle and remai…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Sussex County Woman’s Body Exhumed 32 Years After Disappearance In Homicide Cold Case Sussex County Woman’s Body Exhumed 32 Years After Disappearance In Homicide Cold Case
Sussex County Woman’s Body Exhumed 32 Years After Disappearance In Homicide Cold Case The body of a Sussex County woman who was found dead months after she disappeared was exhumed from its final resting place in a new development to a cold case from more than 30 years ago, authorities announced. Lisa McBride was exhumed from Restland Memorial Park in East Hanover on Wednesday, March 9, the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office said. McBride, 27, had just finished her workday at Lakeland Bank in Newfoundland before attending a concert with four friends in New York City on Friday, June 22, 1990, the SCPO said. She then went to Big John’s Pub on Old Route 23 in Newfoundland, where…

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by Valerie Musson
News
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings A man sentenced to life in prison after strangling a single mother has been linked to two cold-case killings including one in Maryland and another in Virginia dating back to 1987, according to police. Charles Helem, 52, is serving life in prison at a supermax state prison for the 2002 murder of Patricia Bentley, a 37-year-old single mother from Chantilly, Virginia. He strangled Bentley with a phone cord and his hands, according to officials. This week, Helem was indicted for murder by a Fairfax County grand jury in the 1987 murder of another woman and is also suspected of killing a third wo…

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by Joe Gomez
News
COLD CASE: Killer Of Rockland Teen In Notorious Bergen Motel Got Away, Is He Around Today? COLD CASE: Killer Of Rockland Teen In Notorious Bergen Motel Got Away, Is He Around Today?
Cold CASE: Killer Of Rockland Teen In Notorious Bergen Motel Got Away, Is He Around Today? The morning was relatively warm for December when the body of a slain 18-year-old Rockland County girl was found at an infamous Route 17 motel in Bergen County. Someone killed Rosetta Jean-Baptiste by “mechanical asphyxiation” -- similar to what happened to George Floyd.  Only this was 28 years ago. Her parents didn’t know it, but Jean-Baptiste was also pregnant with a boy who was close to full term. He died, as well. The killer was never found. Members of a special cold case unit made up of investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and New Jersey State Police are still h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands
Cold Case Unit Cracks 1985 Killing Of Man Dumped In Meadowlands Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, State Police and the NYPD cracked a 35-year-old cold-case murder with the arrest of a Manhattan man accused of killing a Venezuelan national. David Garrido, 66, is charged with murder in the June 1985 slaying of 27-year-old Ricardo Brown, whose body was found dumped in the marshes in the Meadowlands. Brown had been shot in the head and strangled, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. His body had been “wrapped in sheets of plastic inside a wicker steamer trunk stuffed into a storage trunk,” the prosecutor said. It was f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: More Remains Found In Teaneck Homeowner's Yard, No Foul Play Suspected Prosecutor: More Remains Found In Teaneck Homeowner's Yard, No Foul Play Suspected
Prosecutor: More Remains Found In Teaneck Homeowner's Yard, No Foul Play Suspected Authorities said "no foul play" was suspected in the discovery of human skeletal remains in the front yard of a Teaneck home. "At this time, no foul play is suspected and the current homeowners are not implicated in any way as to how the bones came to be on their property," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said early Thursday afternoon.     The owner, 38, "is getting construction done on his home and the contractors found the remains" during excavation work on Wednesday, a neighbor told Daily Voice. His since-deceased parents had lived at the Van Arsdale Place home at …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Bergen Cold Case Unit Probes Bag Of Bones Found At State Line Lookout On Palisades UPDATE: Bergen Cold Case Unit Probes Bag Of Bones Found At State Line Lookout On Palisades
Update: Bergen Cold Case Unit Probes Bag Of Bones Found At State Line Lookout On Palisades UPDATE: Bones found in a bag tied to a snack stand at the State Line Lookout atop the Palisades in Alpine were identified as human remains -- as well as those found along with some personal items nearby, authorities said Wednesday. "The remains will be submitted to a lab for identification and will be compared to missing persons records," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Employees arriving for work at the stand on Monday found the bones in a bag tied to the door. "The individual who left the bag of remains on the snack stand door was located and directed law enforcement officers…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder
Cold Case: Staten Island Convict Charged With 38-Year-Old Teaneck Murder Authorities charged a Staten Island man with a 38-year-old murder out of Teaneck. Joseph Labosco, 71, was one of two men who shot and killed Wayne Eckhart of Manhattan and left his body in a remote area off Teaneck Road, where it was found on Oct. 1, 1980, Bergen County Acting Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Monday. The other -- George King of New York -- died in June 2007 at 76 years old, he said. Calo's Cold Case Homicide Unit -- working with the partnering New Jersey State Police -- cracked the case after interviewing various witnesses and forensic testing by State Police, the prosecutor sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco