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The Bench

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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 24, 1967, Marianne de la Sala 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 17, 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 Blase, 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? These unsolved female cases haunted the Bergen County prosecutor's

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