NJ NJ - Siegfried Woelki, 30, Hackettstown, 4 Oct 1982

[rob525]

Just a guess, but is the packing house where the brew pub is now?

(Edit: Never mind, I was way off on that one.)

Weird that I can't find any articles about him except for one in the Star-Ledger in 2004 (which doesn't even get the town right).
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It is now Palmer Park. I guess the article confused where he lived with where he disappeared from.

 

[Aegon_the_Conqueror]

It is now Palmer Park. I guess the article confused where he lived with where he disappeared from.

Yeah I see that now. I Googled it and the brew pub came up. Wasn't even the right road. (It was the other road in Long Valley.) He hadn't lived near Madison in a while either.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

Also in one article it states he lived in Mansfield Village, in another Towpath (there was a Krauszers) across the street Towpath but these apartments are on completely different sides of Hackettstown. Wondering if the girlfriend lived in one and SW in the other.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

So strange. I’m also familiar with the area and as you probably know, it’s not exactly a high crime area. It’s not close to major highways or anything. Growing up, people referred to it as “Happy Valley” or, less endearingly, said it was like living in a bubble. That’s not to say crime can’t happen anywhere, but something like this is certainly odd. I feel so bad for his family-especially his parents.

Very familiar with the area as well, the strange thing is when I drive that way this is not the case that I think of, my mind will always go to the Rachel Domas homicide that shattered the area in 1985

 

[rob525]

Also in one article it states he lived in Mansfield Village, in another Towpath (there was a Krauszers) across the street Towpath but these apartments are on completely different sides of Hackettstown. Wondering if the girlfriend lived in one and SW in the other.

I noticed that as well. Most articles say Towpath so I was figuring that was the correct one. Although, your suggestion about the girlfriend and Mansfield Apts. is a good one and may explain the discrepancy.

 

[Aegon_the_Conqueror]

Very familiar with the area as well, the strange thing is when I drive that way this is not the case that I think of, my mind will always go to the Rachel Domas homicide that shattered the area in 1985

That one I've never heard of (I would've been 0-1 years old and a couple years away from moving to NW Jersey... Hunterdon until last year, now Warren). There aren't many homicides up here so the ones that do happen hit hard. In the ~35 years in my hometown, you could probably count all homicides on one hand. The only one I can think of was 11-year-old Jacob Tracy in 1995, which was extremely shocking.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

Morris County, where I grew up was rocked by several brutal homicides in the 80's, thankfully almost all were solved. A few remain open and my hope is that as technology develops the remaining ones will be resolved.