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Hitchhiker's 50-Year-Cold Case Cracked By NJ College's Genealogy Center
After nearly five decades without answers, the 1974 murder of Mary Schlais has been solved, thanks to groundbreaking work by the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Center in Mahwah, NJ.
On Nov. 7, 2024, the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest of Jon Miller, 84, of Owatonna, MN, in connection with Schlais’s death.
Schlais, then 25, was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when she was killed. Her body was found with multiple stab wounds along a road in Dunn County, WI, on Feb. 15, 1974.
At the scene, investigators collected a stocking cap t…
NJ Fugitive Arrested After Domestic Spat In Lower Chichester: Police
A lovers' spat led police in Pennsylvania to a Delaware mom wanted as a fugitive from justice in New Jersey, authorities said Nov. 7.
Officers took Tiffany Casapulla, 31, of New Castle, DE, into custody after responding to a domestic incident on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, at approximately 5:18 p.m. on the 1100 block of Sterling Avenue in Linwood, PA, Lower Chichester police said. During their response, officers discovered Casapulla had outstanding arrest warrants from New Jersey.
Once the domestic situation was secured, Casapulla was charged as a fugitive from justice under Title 42 Section 91…
Man Sentenced For 2021 New Year's Day Stabbing At South Jersey Park, Prosecutors Say
A Ventnor City man will spend several years in prison after stabbing a man in Absecon on New Year's Day nearly four years ago, authorities said.
William Clanton, 24, was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 7 to three years in state prison, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. He was convicted of third-degree aggravated assault.
Absecon police responded to a stabbing at the South Jersey Field Of Dreams baseball park on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. Officers found a man with four stab wounds to his head, throat, arm, and stomach.
The victim was rushed to t…
