New Jersey Girl Murders Project 1960-1980

[Peter Vronsky]

I am an investigative historian and author of 'Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers From the Stone Age to the Present' and 'Serial Killers: The Method of Madness of Monsters' and would welcome any input, information or corrections to this series of timelines and geo-forensic map for a string of unsolved murders in New Jersey 1960-1980.

New Jersey Girl Murders 1960-1980

 

[JrzyGirl70]

Peter being a Jersey Girl these have piqued my interest for sure. I am going to have to ask my parents if they remember these from back then, they were both born and raised in Hackensack, and so many of these were right in their age bracket.

Note saw a typo on the website: Mary Ann Della Sala was found April 10, 1967 not 1977.

 

[Trident]

Well, you've got my cousin's picture up there. I remember these murders quite well and some things that came after.

 

[Peter Vronsky]

Peter being a Jersey Girl these have piqued my interest for sure. I am going to have to ask my parents if they remember these from back then, they were both born and raised in Hackensack, and so many of these were right in their age bracket.

Note saw a typo on the website: Mary Ann Della Sala was found April 10, 1967 not 1977.

Thanks for finding that typo.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

Glad to see three cases listed on the NJ Girl Murders site have been cleared with the confession of Richard Cottingham. Hoping the remain girls will have their cases solved someday.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/n...ttingham-linked-three-more-deaths/2803456001/

 

[Trident]

Glad to see three cases listed on the NJ Girl Murders site have been cleared with the confession of Richard Cottingham. Hoping the remain girls will have their cases solved someday.

Cold cases solved: Bergen serial killer confesses to three more deaths

I'm extremely skeptical. No facts are given, nor will they be according to the article. My cousin is one of the cases "cleared" and I'm wondering if the Bergen County Prosecutors Office is only too happy to file these cases away.

I still have clippings when another individual was a prime suspect sought by the police.

I'll have to buy the book on this guy, but until then, color me unconvinced.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

Trident ~ I'm sorry that your family was affected by these terrible murders.

 

[Panhypopit]

Re Joan Carol Friedman, the murder at Hoffman-LaRoche in Nutley. The campus is directly off a highway with an entrance/exit right off route 3 and and additional entrance and exit in a very residential area. Easy to get in and out with lax security and once out, easy to blend in with the crowd. Lived very close to there.

 

[Peter Vronsky]

I am an investigative historian and author of 'Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers From the Stone Age to the Present' and 'Serial Killers: The Method of Madness of Monsters' and would welcome any input, information or corrections to this series of timelines and geo-forensic map for a string of unsolved murders in New Jersey 1960-1980.

New Jersey Girl Murders 1960-1980

Breaking News: Richard Cottingham has been charged in a twelfth murder - a case that Jennifer Weiss and I coaxed out of him. This one was in Long Island New York, in Nassau County near the border with Queens off the Sunrise Highway. This is the first case back in New York since the three 1979-1980 murders he stood trial for. His recent confessions were all in New Jersey, but Jennifer and I are circling back with Cottingham to Bergen County and several other jurisdictions in New Jersey. And more to come in New York.

'Torso killer' linked to 1968 cold case murder at NY mall: sources

NEW YORK (PIX11) — More than 50 years after the body of Diane Cusick, 23, was found duct-taped in the back seat of her car at the Green Acres Mall, a notorious serial killer from New Jersey, Richar…

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[JrzyGirl70]

Thanks Peter for all of your work.. I am sure there will definitely be more...