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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
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Man In $1M Meth Lab Bust, Pal Put Dead Body Under NJ Family's Doghouse, Police Say Man In $1M Meth Lab Bust, Pal Put Dead Body Under NJ Family's Doghouse, Police Say
Man In $1M Meth Lab Bust, Pal Put Dead Body Under NJ Family's Doghouse, Police Say Two Sussex County ex-cons have been accused of relocating human remains found in a Hopatcong home to a doghouse underneath a deck, authorities said. Brian Cheda-Hackembruch, 25, of Andover Township (who you may remember from his involvement in a $1 million meth lab raid), and Matthew R. Thomas, 27, of Newton had found the body of an individual who died of a medical emergency in a Hopatcong home, Andover Township police said. Instead of notifying officials, the pair loaded the victim into the trunk of his or her own vehicle, then hired a towing company to move the car to a street near West L…

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by Valerie Musson
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KNOW HER? Authorities Seek Help Identifying Woman Found Dead In Elizabeth KNOW HER? Authorities Seek Help Identifying Woman Found Dead In Elizabeth
Know HER? Authorities Seek Help Identifying Woman Found Dead In Elizabeth Authorities are seeking the public's help identifying a woman found dead along Elizabeth railroad tracks this week. The woman was found along railroad tracks off of the 300 block of Port Avenue in Elizabeth Thursday afternoon, Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo, Elizabeth Police Department Deputy Chief Giacomo Sacca and Director Earl Graves said. Possibly black or Hispanic, the woman is either in her late 20s or early 30s, and approximately five feet and six inches tall with no distinguishing marks or tattoos on her body. The Union County Homicide Task Force, assisted by …

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by Cecilia Levine