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Cold Case Murder Suspect Heads To NJ Court Monday Cold Case Murder Suspect Heads To NJ Court Monday
Cold Case Murder Suspect Heads To NJ Court Monday The man charged in a decades-old murder case will be extradited to New Jersey and appear in court Monday, April 20, authorities said. Robert William McCaffrey Jr., 54, will be returned from North Carolina this weekend to face charges in connection with the 1990 homicide of Lisa Marie McBride, Sussex County Prosecutor Daniel M. Perez said. McCaffrey is scheduled to appear before Superior Court Judge Janine M. Allen at 9:30 a.m. for arraignment, where he is expected to be formally charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and second-degree burglary, according to Perez. Follo…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Cold Case Cracked: NJ Bank Worker's Killer Arrested After 36 Years On The Run, Cops Say Cold Case Cracked: NJ Bank Worker's Killer Arrested After 36 Years On The Run, Cops Say
Cold Case Cracked: NJ Bank Worker's Killer Arrested After 36 Years On The Run, Cops Say A North Carolina man has been arrested in connection with a 1990 murder in New Jersey, authorities said. Robert William McCaffrey Jr., 54, of Manteo, North Carolina, was taken into custody at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 10 by a multistate task force in the killing of Lisa Marie McBride,  Sussex County Prosecutor Daniel Perez said. McCaffrey is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, and burglary in the death of McBride, whose killing occurred on June 23, 1990, in Vernon Township, authorities said.  Investigators said the decades-old case was solved through advancements in DNA t…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Army Veteran, Toddler Daughter ID'd As 1997 Murder Victims On Long Island Army Veteran, Toddler Daughter ID'd As 1997 Murder Victims On Long Island
Army Veteran, Toddler Daughter ID'd As 1997 Murder Victims On Long Island An Army veteran single mother and her toddler daughter were publicly identified nearly three decades after they were murdered on Long Island. Tanya Denise Jackson, of Brooklyn, and her 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes, were identified as the victims in the 1997 cold case killings that later became known as the "Peaches" homicides during a Nassau County Police press conference Wednesday, April 23.  Jackson's dismembered torso was discovered inside a plastic storage bin at Hempstead Lake State Park in June 1997. More of the 26-year-old's remains were found in April 2011…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Foot Found Near River ID'd As Missing PA Woman Thanks To NJ College Students Foot Found Near River ID'd As Missing PA Woman Thanks To NJ College Students
Foot Found Near River ID'd As Missing PA Woman Thanks To NJ College Students A foot found along the Delaware River in 2017 has finally been identified, thanks to student researchers at a New Jersey college. The remains belonged to Maria Quinones Garcia, who was 54 years old when she went missing from her home in Allentown, PA, in 2014, according to a release from the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Center in Mahwah.  The students used a DNA profile created from bone remains found in Warren County, NJ, and traced the mystery back to Garcia using genetic genealogy. The foot — still in a sock and shoe — was discovered by a local resident…

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by Cecilia Levine
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DNA Match Cracks 1997 NJ Murder Case, Suspect Arrested In Canada DNA Match Cracks 1997 NJ Murder Case, Suspect Arrested In Canada
DNA Match Cracks 1997 NJ Murder Case, Suspect Arrested In Canada After 27 years, authorities announced an arrest in a major Bridgewater cold case murder. Robert Creter, a 60-year-old Winnipeg, Manitoba resident was charged with the murder of Tamara "Tammy" Tignor, 23, of Newark,  Somerset County Prosecutor John McDonald said Monday, Dec. 2. Bridgewater police received a 9-1-1 call reporting the discovery of Tignor's body by a Bridgewater resident on a dirt access road that ended in a cul-de-sac off Gilbride Road near Washington Valley Park on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1997, McDonald said. An autopsy determined her death to be a homicide, authorities sai…

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by Sam Barron