EPISODE 8: Dead End

Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

WNYC

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

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In February 2015, the Somerset prosecutor announced that John Sheridan had murdered his wife in cold blood and then killed himself. In 2017, the manner of death was updated to “undetermined.” From the local detectives to the state’s Attorney General’s office, a lot of people walked away from these murders. If a family as powerful and well-connected as the Sheridans gets such bad treatment, what does this say about the justice system in New Jersey?

New voices interviewed in episode:

• Ben Barlyn, lawyer who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Chris Christie administration.

• Peter Sheridan, younger brother of John, and a federal judge in New Jersey.

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Nancy.
0:02.6	If you've reached this point, you're obviously willing to get into the weeds of New Jersey
0:06.9	politics like me.
0:09.5	This podcast is produced by WNYC Studios.
0:12.8	That means the largest source of our funding comes from you.
0:16.9	We really want to bring you more of this kind of reporting and that cost money.
0:21.5	So if you've enjoyed these episodes and you're looking forward to what you're about to
0:25.8	hear on the final one, here's my ask.
0:29.2	Let's take a minute right now to text the words dead end to 701-01.
0:35.6	We're really only asking you to chip in a few bucks and this makes it easy to do it and
0:40.4	easy to support this work.
0:42.6	Now onto the show.
0:57.7	When I was a kid, I loved doing jigsaw puzzles with my mom.
1:03.8	And that's how I see this story, figuring out what was happening to John Charidan at
1:09.1	the time of his death.
1:11.4	It's like a puzzle-left piece together.
1:16.2	In one corner, there's a picture of Camden.
1:19.8	Blocks and blocks have boarded up homes, broken sewers.
1:24.4	But in one neighborhood, there are shiny new buildings, paid for with more than a billion
1:30.2	dollars in tax breaks.
1:32.2	But it doesn't get to the people it's intended for.
1:36.4	Another corner is a portrait of John and Joyce Charidan.
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