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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…
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…
Philadelphia Nun’s Cold-Case Hit-And-Run Still Unsolved 20 Years Later: Police Philadelphia Nun’s Cold-Case Hit-And-Run Still Unsolved 20 Years Later: Police
Philadelphia Nun’s Cold-Case Hit-And-Run Still Unsolved 20 Years Later: Police A cold-case hit-and-run that killed a Philadelphia nun on her way to church remains unsolved 20 years later, and investigators are asking the public to take another look at what they may know. The Philadelphia Police Department and the Citizens Crime Commission renewed their call for tips last Friday, Jan. 9, marking two decades since Sister Paul Mercedes Perreca, IHM, was struck and killed, according to a release. Sister Paul, a longtime eighth-grade teacher at St. Martin of Tours School, was crossing at Cottman Avenue and Hawthorne Street around 6:27 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2006, when she was hit…
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…
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…
9-Year-Old Found Strangled In Bristol Church, Tips Sought 62 Years Later 9-Year-Old Found Strangled In Bristol Church, Tips Sought 62 Years Later
9-Year-Old Found Strangled In Bristol Church, Tips Sought 62 Years Later Pennsylvania State Police investigators are seeking tips in a 9-year-old girl's cold case murder.  Carol Ann Dougherty was found dead inside St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church in Bristol Borough on Oct. 22, 1962. She was strangled and had been sexually assaulted, according to troopers.  Police said Dougherty had stopped at the church while riding her bike to the library. She had stopped there to say a prayer, according to a report in the Bristol Courier-Times the day after her murder.  Then-Bristol Police Chief Vincent Faragalli called her killing "one of the most br…