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NJ Mom Believed Slain By Son Was Longtime ShopRite Employee Turned Realtor NJ Mom Believed Slain By Son Was Longtime ShopRite Employee Turned Realtor
NJ Mom Believed Slain By Son Was Longtime ShopRite Employee Turned Realtor A Howell Township mother who prosecutors said was stabbed to death by her son is being remembered as her family's "heart and soul." Loretta Parody, 61, died on Monday, June 3 and police arrested 25-year-old Robert Parody at the family's home on Porter Road just before 1:30 a.m. Investigators said Robert Parody entered his mother's bedroom and stabbed her in the chest while she was sleeping. Loretta Parody was rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Robert Parody was charged with first-degree murder and was held at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution to await a…

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
Missing Girls - 7 Teens Have Gone Missing From Chicopee Over Last 3 Months Missing Girls - 7 Teens Have Gone Missing From Chicopee Over Last 3 Months
Missing Girls - 7 Teens Have Gone Missing From Chicopee Over Last 3 Months Seven girls have gone missing from Chicopee over the last three months. On Friday, Jan. 29, Chicopee Police reached out to the public for help finding Saray Ortiz, 16, who has been missing since Jan. 26. Saray is the seventh missing girl reported in Chicopee since November. Many of the children have since been found, but three are unaccounted for: Saray, who is 5’1”, about 110 lbs., with brown eyes, and black, curly, shoulder-length hair. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black fleece coat in the Chicopee Falls area heading toward Springfield, police said. Hayleigh Gonzalez, 14…

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by Kristin Palpini
News
First Fort Dix Federal Inmate Death From COVID-19 Reported First Fort Dix Federal Inmate Death From COVID-19 Reported
First Fort Dix Federal Inmate Death From Covid-19 Reported An inmate who was placed in isolation at the Fort Dix federal prison after testing positive for COVID-19 last month died on Friday, authorities said. Myron Crosby, 58, was the first of more than 1,400 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Burlington County who were diagnosed with the virus to die, U.S. Bureau of Prisons records show. He’d been serving a 14-year federal sentence at the low-security facility since Sept. 17, 2019 on a conviction out of Maine for having and conspiring to sell heroin, the Department of Justice said in a release. Crosby -- who had long-term, …

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by Jerry DeMarco