You're listening to Denise didn't come home on the binge.

Before you dive in, if you want to listen to the whole story, uninterrupted, you can.

Unlock the entire season, Ad Free right now with a subscription to the binge.

That's all episodes episodes all at once.

Unlock you're listening now by clicking subscribe at the top of the Binge

cases show page on Apple Podcasts or visit Get The Binge.com to get access

wherever you get your podcasts.

The Bench.

Hey everyone, just a quick heads up before we get started. This episode

contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault, so please take

extra care when listening. I'll never forget that moment, sitting in the basement of the Hackensack Library going through the microfilm and

stumbling across all these murders of young women.

January 24th, 1967, Mary Ann Delisala disappears in Hackensack, New Jersey.

They find her body in the Passaic River.

October 28, 1967, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, Nancy Vogel, 29 years old, Strangled.

July 17th, 1968, Jacqueline Harp, 13 years old, Strangled.

And then the craziest one.

April 8th, 1969, just a few months before Denise Falaska was killed.

Irene Blaise 18 was found strangled in Saddlebrook about a mile away from where Denise's body was found.

The newspapers were drawing connections between these murders.

I wondered if the police at the time had too. And if they had, why did

so many of these murders stay unsolved?

...