Introducing Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

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

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

New Jersey politics is not for the faint of heart. But the brutal killing of John and Joyce Sheridan, a prominent couple with personal ties to three governors, shocks even the most cynical operatives. The mystery surrounding the crime sends their son on a quest for truth. Dead End is a story of crime and corruption at the highest levels of society in the Garden State.

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0:00.0	In September 2014, a man notices the house next door is on fire.
0:15.2	John Sheridan and his wife Joyce were found dead in their burning bedroom.
0:18.8	A prominent New Jersey couple and close friends of Governor Chris Christie.
0:23.4	The Sheridan's were stabbed multiple times.
0:29.1	The crime shocks New Jersey's political world for governors and almost the entire state
0:34.7	legislature attend the funeral.
0:36.7	It was almost all of the assembly in the Senate and they all played the respects and
0:41.6	the area was to a guy who was never held elective office.
0:44.7	It has taken six months and all but now the Somerset County prosecutor says the Cooper
0:50.1	Health CEO John Sheridan did in fact kill his wife Joyce before stabbing himself and
0:55.9	setting the couple's bedroom on fire.
0:59.9	But the Sheridan's had been married 47 years.
1:03.4	The murder suicide theory just didn't add up.
1:08.0	What about it makes you feel uncomfortable and you don't need to say but um...
1:11.2	Because I don't believe it.
1:13.2	And I think it's a false accusation and that this family has to suffer like this.
1:20.3	I'm Nancy Solomon.
1:21.8	I cover New Jersey for WNYC.
1:24.7	Two years ago I set out to find out what really happened to the Sheridan's and maybe even
1:30.3	more importantly why.
1:33.4	John Sheridan was a man with strong relationships with the most powerful people in New Jersey.
1:39.0	I talked to former governors, attorneys general and even the guy who took down the New Jersey
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