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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 10, 2004 16:04:08 GMT -5
The body has been tentatively identified as that of Thong Huynh, 20, of Pennsauken, who ran a temporary employment agency in his hometown. Huynh had been missing for nearly a week, said Bill Shralow, a spokesman for Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi.
The badly decomposed body -- hands bound behind the back with duct tape and tape placed over the mouth -- was found near 10th and Penn streets between 5 and 6 p.m. by a 10-year-old neighborhood boy, who noticed an odor and saw an object covered by a sheet amid some underbrush, Shralow said.
The child then alerted an adult, who called police.
Huynh was last seen alive June 3, leaving a check cashing business in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia, carrying $17,000 in cash. His burned out Mazda minivan was found in an area off Adams Avenue in Camden just after 10 p.m. that day.
Huynh was reported missing by his family the following day.
Shralow said the identification was made through tattoos of Chinese symbols on man's back and from clothing he was wearing. Dental records will be used to confirm the identification.
A cause of death is pending an autopsy. Shralow said decomposition of the body prevented authorities from making a preliminary determination.
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Post by LadyBlue on Sept 29, 2004 12:06:23 GMT -5
For more than three straight days, Stephany Miranda walked.
The 16-year-old, who had been reported missing from Elizabeth, walked through Union, Hillside, Westfield and Fanwood.
She survived on bagels and biscuits by day and slept on park benches at night.
Late Monday night, friends of the family who had formed a search party found the high school senior on Elmora Avenue in Elizabeth. They called her family, who called police.
It was concern over grades that prompted her walking tour of Union County, she said.
"It's keeping up with all the work," the long-legged teenager said yesterday at her home on Rahway Avenue. "I am aiming for a 4.0 or higher because I want a scholarship."
Calculus had been giving her trouble, Stephany said, so Friday afternoon after school, instead of walking to her piano class on Morristown Road, she stayed on Westfield Avenue and kept going.
While she walked, her parents and police searched for her.
Her father, Angelo Miranda, and her mother, Carmen Bilbao, handed out fliers with her picture to anyone who would take them. They sought publicity from the media to bring attention to their plight. Elizabeth police put six investigators on the case. Officers went door to door along Westfield Avenue in their attempt to find her.
When she was found, she was wearing the same clothes she had on when she left home on Friday, overalls and a long-sleeved shirt, Elizabeth police Lt. Dan Saulnier said.
"She was in good shape physically," said Saulnier.
"It worked out well," the officer said, adding that his department handled 354 reports of missing juveniles in 2003.
While her parents worried about her safety, Stephany said she never felt scared.
"God was with me," Stephany said. "I didn't think anything bad was going to happen. I just felt like I had to leave. I felt pressure. I just needed a chance to relax. I kept walking just to be alone."
Her parents believed the usually responsible teenager had run off because of their opposition to her fasting and constant Bible reading. Stephany had become very involved with religion and started to take the teachings in the Bible literally.
The girl had been receiving counseling, but yesterday Stephany said her decision to run away had nothing to do with religion.
Monday evening as she walked on a road in Union, police officers in a Union County patrol car pulled up next to her, Stephany said.
"I asked them, could you take me to the next town," Stephany said. "They asked me how old I am and what my name is."
Stephany refused to answer the officers' questions. The male and female officers put her in the back of their patrol car and dropped her off in Hillside.
Stephany walked on, into Elizabeth.
"When I saw her, I hugged her, I kissed," said Bilbao. "She said, 'Mommy.'"
Stephany said she wanted to come home but was apprehensive.
"God brought me back to my family, and now we are reunited," Stephany said.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jan 24, 2005 22:40:11 GMT -5
Police have found the body of a South Jersey woman who has been missing for two months. Doris Daughenbaugh, 42, was found Sunday in an abandoned home by an officer who saw an open door at an abandoned house. The discovery was made about 3 miles from the Super G supermarket in Mount Laurel, where she was last seen. Investigators said that candles surrounded Daughenbaugh's body and there was a bottle of sleeping pills nearby. She was also wearing slippers instead of the sneakers she was seen wearing before she disappeared. Police said they suspected early in the search for Daughenbaugh that it might be a case of suicide because they found that a suicide Web site had been accessed on the woman's home computer. Daughenbaugh was last seen on Nov. 28 on surveillance video entering and leaving the Super G store. Her purse with $300 in it and her cell phone were found locked in her car in the supermarket's parking lot. www.nbc10.com/news/4125238/detail.html
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Post by LadyBlue on Feb 10, 2005 12:00:53 GMT -5
The body of a Holmdel woman who disappeared while working at a water treatment plant in Totowa was found inside a tank there Wednesday night, but authorities have not determined whether she was a victim of foul play or died accidentally.
Geetha Angara, 43, of Centerville Road, was last seen Tuesday night doing water quality tests at the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant.
Searchers then spent several hours looking for Angara. Her body was found about 100 feet from where she had been seen working.
Passaic County Prosecutor Thomas Avigliano said the case was being investigated as a homicide, largely because a protective grate over the tank made it appear unlikely she could have fallen in.
Investigators did find that a section of the grate had been pulled away, creating enough space for a person to fall through. However, it was unclear whether the grate had been moved by police and dive teams who were the first to respond to the scene Tuesday night or had been pulled away before Angara fell in.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine whether there is evidence of trauma on the body, authorities said.
Her family returned home around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night after waiting at the water commission plant all day for Angara to be found.
"We are really sorry . . . we are in grief," said Raj Rao, Angara's brother-in-law, when reached by telephone.
The two youngest of Angara's three children had not been told what happened to their mother as of Wednesday night, Rao said. The children were sleeping when the family arrived home. Her youngest daughter is 9, Rao said.
Angara's eldest daughter, 19, spent the day at the water commission plant with her father and other members of the family, according to Angara's sister, Saranya Rao.
The family was left with many questions Wednesday night about the circumstances of Angara's death.
"Something doesn't jibe," Raj Rao said. "It doesn't fit into what a person would be doing in a test situation. We don't know what is going on."
Rao, who lives in North Jersey, stayed at Angara's home Wednesday watching her sister's two youngest children while the family waited for news at the water plant.
Before her sister was found, Saranya Rao said Angara was last seen Tuesday morning when she went to perform checks, but no one realized she was missing until later that night when her car was spotted in the parking lot.
"I don't understand why they didn't look for her," Rao said. "It is unbelievable they didn't know she was missing until night."
Angara's car and belongings were found where they were left Tuesday on the grounds of the plant.
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Post by LadyBlue on May 7, 2005 9:32:33 GMT -5
A 34-year-old Berlin, New Jersey, man has been charged with the murders of two Maple Shade businessmen, one of whom had been missing for over a month and the other of whom was the owner of the Rodeway Inn.
James Mickno, 45, who owned Floor Decor, had been missing for over a month. Camden County prosecutor Vince Sarubbi says Mickno was gunned down by Anthony Rodesky at his Berlin home because Rodesky was not paid for a carpet installation job:
“The body remained in the Berlin home for about seven days. It was put in the back of a pickup truck. It was then taken to the woods behind Winslow Township High School, where the body was dumped.”
Mickno’s body was found on Monday by a youngster riding a mountain bike. A 17-year-old is also being held in connection with the murder.
In addition, Rodesky is also being charged with the murder of 57-year-old Ranjit Patel during an apparent robbery attempt at the Rodeway Inn.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 17, 2005 9:02:11 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Elizabeth J. Abrego[/glow] Abrego was found safe in 2005. She had been missing since September 28, 2004 from Pennsauken, New Jersey
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Post by LadyBlue on Apr 26, 2006 14:37:32 GMT -5
Searchers at a Pennsylvania landfill found the body of a college student who disappeared more than a month ago, but authorities said Wednesday they don't suspect foul play. John Fiocco Jr., a freshman at The College of New Jersey, was last seen early March 25 when he returned to his campus dormitory after a party. Investigators later found his blood on the dormitory's trash bin, which led them to the landfill in nearby Tullytown, Pa. After more than three weeks of searching, they found the body there Tuesday. Fiocco was identified through dental records, state police and prosecutors said Wednesday. "Our sincere condolences go out to his parents, John and Susan Fiocco, and the entire Fiocco family and to the administration and students of The College of New Jersey," said state police Superintendent Rick Fuentes. Fuentes said there is no evidence that Fiocco was stabbed or shot. He said the investigation is continuing, but Fiocco's death is not classified as a homicide. Investigators contacted 1,000 students and school workers, and interviewed more than 150 of Fiocco's friends and relatives, and don't suspect foul play, he said. Fiocco's family declined to comment Wednesday. His uncle had said Tuesday after the body was found that the family was in mourning. "Johnny was caring, sensitive, smart and witty," Joseph Fiocco said. He asked anyone with information about what had happened to his nephew to contact authorities. The search for Fiocco started 36 hours after he was last seen, when his roommate reported him missing. Investigators found blood and blood-soaked material in and around a trash bin behind the dorm. After a laboratory confirmed the blood was Fiocco's, investigators started sifting through a 1-acre, 20-foot deep area at the landfill where the dorm's trash is dumped. Authorities have said Fiocco may have slid down a trash chute into the bin, although a camera used to scan the chute found no traces of blood. The injuries that Fiocco's body had sustained were consistent with being processed by a trash disposal system, authorities said. They would not say whether the injuries had been sustained before or after Fiocco died. Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr. said it is possible authorities will never learn exactly what happened. tinyurl.com/pkyzz
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