I am bumping this old thread because this body was found on my street about one month after we bought our house and moved in. Nice welcome to the neighborhood that was! (We don't live there anymore)
One thing to know about the location--it is right off the highway. If you were to get off the parkway there, make a couple of turns, and drive until the street came to an end, then turn left on Locust Ave. and drive toward the river (looking for a dump site? on the bank) you would find this location. At the time it was an abandoned apartment complex that has since been rebuilt, and people have lived there for years.
Clearly Sara had nothing to do with Red Bank, but would the killer have known this very specific, hidden spot?
These mutilation cases make my brain squirm.
From Brooklyn to jersey.
Wondering if she was killed in Brooklyn than taken to Jersey.
Or taken to Jersey than killed.
To me she does not seem to be a victim of a serial killer....
Unless other older women around the time also became missing and found dismembered.
I have a hunch the live-in boyfriend is dead? Anyone know?
Your question if the killer knew the area in advance would seem possible. Better to have a plan site selected in advance than just drive around after killing someone and dismember them without having a place to put it.
Seems to me he did know about the place, and decided that would be it.
I am thinking he took her to jersey and killed her there. Seems risky to kill her in Brooklyn and transport her to jersey. But maybe he had her concealed really well from the dismemberment so transporting would not be so risky. Especially if her just moved pieces at a time, and not all at once. Which seems what he did, since they have not found all the parts from what I have read.
She does not seem random victim to me. Usually from what I have read older women are murdered in there homes and not taken from the streets especially in broad daylight. Very few serial killers I have read about choose older women from the street to murder and usually murdered them in the homes they lived in. This seems personal. Someone she knew. Someone whom befriended her and for what ever reason killed her and did not want her to be found, and or ID if parts were discovered.
Insurance money would only paid at the time if she was found dead and not just missing. So killing her for insurance money does not fit.
What could this woman had done, if anything to have someone kill her like they did?
In 97 computers were in use with windows 95, I wonder if she met someone on line at the time from chat rooms, and that became a problem with her live in BF?
My question could she have met her killer online??
If there was no computer in the home, than the above is not relevant.
If the BF at the time was cleared of any involvement.
Maybe a LEO will show up here and answer some questions with facts to save time in speculating about things.
If she was not murdered in her home. Than perhaps in Jersey. Did she have any connection to Jersey?
