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EXCLUSIVE: Mom Found Dead In Fridge, Timeline Not Adding Up For Distraught Family EXCLUSIVE: Mom Found Dead In Fridge, Timeline Not Adding Up For Distraught Family
Exclusive: Mom Found Dead In Fridge, Timeline Not Adding Up For Distraught Family Laura Hughes moved to New Jersey from Virginia in 2023 with the hope of being closer to her two teen daughters. "We thought it was a new beginning," said Cornel Alston, the father of her girls. Instead, the family is left mourning Hughes' loss days after the discovery of her remains, found stuffed in a refrigerator in a wooded area of the Belleplain State Forest on Sunday, Dec. 22. The timeline around 50-year-old Hughes' death isn't adding up for Alston, who says authorities have given him little information, compounding the pain of the loss. The NJ Courts website shows that Christop…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Gunman Arrested In 'Friendly Fire' North Jersey Murder: Prosecutor Gunman Arrested In 'Friendly Fire' North Jersey Murder: Prosecutor
Gunman Arrested In 'Friendly Fire' North Jersey Murder: Prosecutor The alleged gunman involved in last month’s “friendly fire” North Jersey murder has been arrested, authorities announced Monday. Darneill Thomas, 22, was arrested in Danville, Virginia, and charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, said. Thomas, of West Orange, was among one of two groups of men who were fighting moments before the deadly shooting of Joshua Dessin, 19, on Hilton Street in East Orange just a…

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by Valerie Musson