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Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

EPISODE 6: On the (Camden) Waterfront

Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

WNYC

Jersey, Sheridan, Murders, And, New, Crime, John, Joyce, True, Politics, True Crime

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A couple months after his parents’ deaths, Mark Sheridan comes across a paper trail: extensive email exchanges, dated memos, and handwritten notes detailing a real estate deal on the Camden waterfront. His father, John Sheridan, wrote himself a note on an envelope: “I have a duty of loyalty and good faith and I need to act in a way consistent with that responsibility." How did John act and what impact did it have?

New voice interviewed in episode:

• Jeff Pillets, an investigative reporter who spent a year at the Bergen Record looking at George Norcross and his insurance business

Transcript

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About two months after his parents were killed, Mark Sheridan needed to file their taxes.

0:08.0

I asked the Somerset County Prosecutors Office for all of the materials that they had taken

0:14.0

from the house copies of whatever they had.

0:17.0

And what they gave Mark surprised him.

0:20.0

It was enough to fill a banker's box.

0:23.0

When I got back to the files from the Somerset County Prosecutors Office,

0:26.0

all of the L3 documents were there.

0:31.0

L3. It's an office complex on the Campton Waterfront.

0:36.0

The documents were all about the sale of those buildings.

0:40.0

And I'm trying to get my arms around it.

0:43.0

And I start to see from those emails that there was a fight over this issue, over this property.

0:53.0

Mark knew about this because his father had asked him for legal advice about it five months before his death.

1:00.0

His dad was upset about the issue back then.

1:04.0

But the banker's box had more documents and details that Mark hadn't seen.

1:10.0

They'd taken everything on the dining room table, essentially.

1:13.0

And so when I started looking through all of that, I was stunned to see those documents out and about in September of 2014.

1:21.0

But there the documents were.

1:27.0

On the dining room table, the night his parents were killed.

1:32.0

Mark had discussed this real estate deal with his father.

1:35.0

He knew how stressed he'd been about it months before.

1:38.0

And I know that this is what my father was upset about.

1:42.0

There were handwritten notes about phone calls and meetings, email exchanges that were printed out, and everything was stated.

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