JENNIFER PERSIA, 16, MURDERED DURING '94 BURGLARY

 

JENNIFER PERSIA was just 16 when she was found murdered on the living room floor of her home in Magnolia, New Jersey. She had been stabbed multiple times and cops soon discovered containers of coins and silver certificates were missing. That was April 4, 1994. The case is still unsolved. For information leading to an arrest and conviction in the slaying of Jennifer Lynne Persia. Anyone with information should call the Camden County Prosecutor's Office hotline at (856) 225-8476 or e-mail tipline@co.camden.nj.us. Offering a REWARD of more than $15,000.  SEE THE CLIP ABOVE

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ANNE RUBENSTEIN, DAUGHTER SLASHED TO DEATH IN '65

IT WAS a horror show in 1965 and it's a horror show today. Anne Rubenstein and her 11-year-old daughter Mae were viciously murdered in Highland Park, New Jersey and 46 years later, cops still have few answers--although the family hopes the long arm of justice will catch the killer.
Niece Aviva LaGasse Rubenstein told the NEW JERSEY STAR-LEDGER: "It is something that has never really left the minds of anyone in our family. It also really changed the innocence of Highland Park." Despite many reviews over the years, no one has ever been able to make sense of the senseless.
On Feb. 13, 1965, Mae, a Grade 6 student, was alone in her parents’ home while her dad Robert, and brother, Elihu, were working at the Star Lumber Co. Anne Rubenstein was food shopping.But when Anne came home she was greeted by the scene of Mae, slashed and
dying in her own home. Anne confronted the attacker and, like her daughter, was savagely stabbed. The Middlesex County medical examiner determined Rubenstein was stabbed with a long-blade kitchen knife some 35 times. Mae suffered 15 stab wounds and her jugular vein was slashed.
Anne was lying in a pool of blood in the foyer, which showed signs of a desperate scuffle. She was still wearing her heavy winter coat, and loaves of bread were scattered on the floor. It does not appear that robbery or sex assault was the motive. The family believes it was mistaken identity. For more click the link above.

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PHILANDER HAMPTON PLEADS GUILTY TO '78 MASSACRE

PURE EVIL. A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to murdering five teens ended the saga in one of the Garden State's oldest active cold cases. Philander Hampton, of Jersey City, told cops he and his cousin, Lee Evans, lured the teens to a ramshackle area of Newark and into an abandoned house with the promise of jobs--then they locked them inside and set the firetrap ablaze. The murders were supposedly triggered by stolen drugs. Evans goes on trial this fall.
Melvin Pittman, Ernest Taylor, Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell were last seen on a busy street near a park where they had played basketball on Aug. 20, 1978.
The probe stumped detectives for years--even though the victims' families always suspected local handyman Evans was the killer. The victims--all close friends-- were last seen on a busy Newark street. Later, McDowell went home and changed, then returned to a waiting pickup truck with at least one other boy inside. That was the last confirmed sighting of any of the teens.

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DID WENDY SUE WOLIN'S KILLER GET AWAY WITH IT?

AS FLOWER power revved up, Elizabeth, New Jersey was stunned by the heinous murder of a 7-year-old girl. On March 8, 1966, Wendy Sue Wolin planned to leave her apartment with her mom Shirley Fleischner. Shirley went around back to get the car and then pick up the skinny little girl at the front of her building. Then, a stocky man wearing a green corduroy coat and fedora, approaching from the opposite direction, suddenly crouched low and thrust a $1.50 hunting knife through her coat and into her stomach. The child doubled over and cried out while the monster continued on. A fire station was across the street and Wendy told them she had been stabbed. But they found her bleeding--the knife gone through her ribs and into her liver. She died in hospital an hour later.

It became one of the biggest manhunts in New Jersey history. Cops were looking for a white male in his 40s, muscular, 6-foot and 220 lbs. Despite thousands of man hours no suspect was ever located--until 29 years later. MORE IN THE STAR-LEDGER

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