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COLD CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder COLD CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder
Cold CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder Nearly half a century after his body was located on the side of a Bucks County highway, investigators are still seeking Terrance Schonleber's killer.  The 25-year-old was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds on the north shoulder of Interstate 276 in Upper Southampton on July 15, 1976, state police detectives say.  During the initial investigation, police learned that Schonleber "was involved in criminal activity" with various "associates" in New Jersey and greater Philadelphia, troopers said.  At the time he died, police said the 25-year-old was wanted in the Garden S…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Years After Brutal Homicide Of New Morris County Mom, 28 STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Years After Brutal Homicide Of New Morris County Mom, 28
Still Unsolved: Police Seek Clues Years After Brutal Homicide Of New Morris County Mom, 28 Investigators continue to search for clues more than 50 years after the brutal killing of a 28-year-old mother in Morris County. Joyce Coleman was found dead as officers responded to her husband’s call at 245 Bartley Rd. in Washington Township around 1 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, 1970, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office said. Coleman was a young mother, and her baby was found unharmed, the MCPO said. According to a recent review of the case from AshMysteries, the home was also ransacked, and Coleman’s cause of deal was ruled “multiple blunt injuries to the head, face, and neck.”  C…

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by Valerie Musson
News
20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Cold-Blooded Christmastime Killing Of Clifton Grandma 20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Cold-Blooded Christmastime Killing Of Clifton Grandma
20 Years Later, Detectives Still Pursue Cold-Blooded Christmastime Killing Of Clifton Grandma Before the explosion of social media and cold-case TV shows and streams, a beloved grandmother was stabbed dead in her Clifton home. Known for her generous volunteer work, Gertrude Bizarro, 72, was the matriarch of her family and the de facto grandmother of her Dutch Hill neighborhood, a row of two-story homes near the Passaic border. She was "all-around great woman loved by many," recalled Clifton Police Detective Lt. Robert Bracken, who knew her. Twenty years ago this Saturday, Bizarro's husband took their youngest daughter to a hair appointment in anticipation of a Christmas gathering i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Years After Parsippany Business Owner Killed In Own Driveway STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Years After Parsippany Business Owner Killed In Own Driveway
Still Unsolved: Police Seek Clues Years After Parsippany Business Owner Killed In Own Driveway Investigators continue to search for clues 25 years after a beloved Morris County business owner was shot and killed in his own driveway. Richard Breitbarth, 48, was shot several times and hit with a blunt instrument in the driveway of his home at 17 Baird Pl. in Whippany on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996 between 8:35 p.m. and 8:45 p.m., the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office said. Breitbarth was the owner and president of Biophase Systems, Inc., located at 259 New Rd. in Parsippany. He had just returned from a trip to the grocery store, authorities said. The case was ruled a homicide, and no arre…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Decades After Finding Man’s Body On Madison Train Platform STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Decades After Finding Man’s Body On Madison Train Platform
Still Unsolved: Police Seek Clues Decades After Finding Man’s Body On Madison Train Platform Investigators continue to search for clues nearly four decades after the finding the body of a murdered man on a Madison train platform. The body of James Wescoe, 34, was found on the train platform by an employee at the Madison Train Station in Madison around 3:15 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, 1982, the Morris County Prosecutor’s office said. Wescoe, of Charnwood Avenue in New Providence, NJ, had been at the Park Tavern in Madison around 12:30 that morning, authorities said. Wescoe was last seen alive walking alone on Lincoln Avenue around 12:50 a.m. The case was ruled a homicide, and no ar…

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by Valerie Musson