NJ NJ - Carolyn Majane, 15, Moorestown, 22 Aug 1975

[mere]

Mere do you have a

Mere do you have a theory?

A few different ones. Without any official suspects I would never mention them.

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up. In a few weeks this unsolved murder will be 50 years old.

 

[tilomagnet]

This case strongly reminds me of the Martha Moxley case in Greenwich, CT in 1975. I bet the killer(s) were local and there are a number of people in this ultra low crime wealthy small town that know who did this. If anything can be proven after so many years and only skeletal remains found is another story though.

 

[AidanG122]

Found my way here via the Margaret Fox thread. I can’t believe I never heard of this case. I moved to Mount Laurel as a kid in the 90’s (I lived on Marne Highway, right around the corner from where Carolyn’s remains were found) and never heard of her case. Of course like I said this was the 90s, but still it pains me that something happened to this girl so close to where I lived and I knew nothing about it. It breaks my heart that from what I’ve read many back then just assumed she had run away. I hope someone knows something and some day it’ll come out.

The reason youve never heard of it is that whenever anyone asks people that where around when it happened and were close with her, they get angry and it seems super touchy. also it seems bad for business around there, and it was around the time people would buy new houses around there, and no one wants to buy a house where a kid could have been kidnapped and murdered.

 

[Gruffin]

Jeannie, I don't get your obsession with thinking that Fred Coffey has murdered every single teen girl in cold cases. He can't have done them all.

Mount Laurel got into the news on March 25, 1975, the day the Lyon sisters were snatched, because on the day before the NJ Supreme Court decided that Mount Laurel had "90 days to develop a zoning plan that would permit low and moderate income housing or face judicial action"[Evening Times, Trenton, NJ, March 25, 1975]. Majane's body was found in a recently built housing development in Mount Laurel. Mount Laurel resident Ethel Lawrence, the "Rosa Parks of Affordable Housing", was key in the fight for this judicial decision, sometimes referred to as the "Mount Laurel doctrine". The Lawrence massacre happened August 21, 1863; Majane was last seen alive the day after its anniversary. One year later, Andy Puglisi vanished from Lawrence, MA, on August 22, 1976 (or maybe August 21). For sure Travis Shane King was last seen alive in Coffey's hometown of Bristol, Virginia, on August 21, 1986, and Coffey's arrest after this incident is what took him off the streets. Sure, Coffey didn't do them all, but he very well might be involved in a great many.

Back on September 20, 1906, Englishwoman Ethel Lawrence and her niece Mabel Lawrence were assaulted in Atlanta, sparking the Atlanta Race Massacre two days later leading to the deaths of about 25 African-Americans. Between those two dates, i.e., September 21, 1906, a train car exploded in Jelico, TN, killing about a dozen, near which town there would be another train disaster killing about 35 on July 6, 1944, the same day as the Hartford, CT, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus fire that killed 167, including over 100 children. What heat source caused the highly flammable circus tent to catch fire was not determined—arson was not ruled out. I believe James Earl Ray was working at the International Shoe Factory in Hartford, IL, near Alton, at the time. The tallest man in the world ever, Robert Wadlow, was from Ray's hometown of Alton, Illinois, and he had worked a few years earlier (Wadlow died July 15, 1940) for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and as a spokesperson for International Shoe, who made his Size 37 shoes for free. Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, led the Grand Fleet during WWI, and his report on the Battle of Jutland was printed for the public on July 6, 1916. (Admiral David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, as in Kathy Beatty, led the British Battle Cruiser Fleet at Jutland). Admiral Jellicoe's son, George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, was a hero in WW2, and was born in Hertfordshire about 8 miles by road from its county seat of Hertford (pronounced like "Hartford", Hartford Connecticut was named after it). George was born the same day the German emigrant Robert Prager was forcibly removed by a mob from jail to be lynched, in Collinsville, IL (about a 20 miles drive from Hartford, IL), 50 years to the day before Ray killed MLK at the Lorraine (as in Lorraine Herbster?) Motel in Memphis. By some accounts Ray may have been influenced by a co-worker at International Shoe, namely Henry Stumm, who was alleged to have pro-Nazi sympathies.

Possibly Coffey or whoever killed Majane was influenced by James Earl Ray. Anyone evil enough to admire the slaying of MLK and associated occultism is probably evil enough to want to rape, etc., girls, and to murder them if they don't view them as heroes of the white "race", or whatever. Maybe Coffey or whoever had somehow known Ray and thus claimed to view himself as such a hero, and hence claimed to be entitled to any white girl he wanted and to kill those who resisted. I don't know. Or maybe technically Coffey or whoever was behind much killing for occult reasons in the 70s and early 80s didn't kill hardly anybody, he just went around using nastiness and occultism to encourage others to kill for the occult reasons he claimed to believe in, which to me is even worse. Looking at occult patterns can tell much about motives of killers and connections between cases, but not quite as much about who actually did the killing, especially in the technical sense.