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May 9, 1983 · Betsy Bacon, 17, left her house on Brooklyn Blvd. in Sea Girt on Nov. 20, 1982 at 11 P.M. to walk to a store for cigarettes. Her body was found in a shallow grave in Tinton Falls on April 15.
- The Body Near The Burger King
- Anna Marie Olesiewicz
- Theresa Smith
- Dherran Fitzgerald
- More Victims
- Richard Biegenwald
- The First Murder
- Serial Killer
It was Friday, January 14, 1983, when two boys playing in a wooded area off Highway 35, near a Burger King, found a body and ran home to tell their parents. In his book, The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer Richard Biegenwald, John E. O’Rourke writes that police recovered female skeletal remains clothed in a dark shirt and blue jeans. Investigators found...
The body was identified as Anna Marie Olesiewicz, age 18, who was last seen on Friday evening, August 27, 1982. Anna lived in Camden, N.J. with her father. She headed to Neptune City with a friend, Denise Hunter, also 18. Denise’s uncle lived near the Asbury Park boardwalk. The teenagers headed to the boardwalk for a night out. After walking the bo...
A 22-year-old woman named Theresa Smith contacted police about a man named Richard Biegenwald. She said that Biegenwald showed her the body of a young girl in his garage which matched the description of Anna’s remains. She said that the girl was wearing “unzipped pants, a dark shirt, and was barefoot.” Smith worked with Biegenwald’s wife, Diane, at...
Detectives followed up on Smith’s information. They found out that Dherran Fitzgerald had been in and out of prison most of his life. Born in October of 1935, he was raised in Long Island, N.Y. Fitzgerald enlisted in the United States Navy where he served as a paratrooper. He was arrested in 1952 for assaulting someone with a knife, he was incarcer...
According to a Daily Newsarticle from 2010, “Jersey Shore ‘Thrill Killer’ Richard Biegenwald accused of killing five in early ’80s,”Fitzgerald led investigators to three more bodies that would be identified as Betsy Bacon, Maria Cialella, and Deborah Osbourne, all age 17. Betsy’s remains were buried in Tinton Falls, N.J. Maria and Deborah were buri...
At the time of his arrest, Biegenwald was a superintendent of the building in Asbury Park where he lived with his wife and Smith. He was convicted of murder in 1958, was arrested and released for attempted rape, and was returned to prison for a parole violation. All sources describe Biegenwald as having a troubled childhood with a lot of red flags....
Richard Biegenwald’s first victim was 47-year-old Stephen Sladowski. On December 18, 1958. Biegenwald, 18-years-old at the time, stopped at a deli in Bayonne, N.J. at 9:40 PM. He was with a friend, Jimmy Sparnroft. The two worked in New York together. Biegenwald was a clerk at Pachers Inventory Company and Sparnroft was a copy boy for Solomon Bros....
After his 1983 arrest, Biegenwald offered to lead investigators to more bodies in exchange for a plea deal that would allow him to avoid the death penalty. Prosecutor Charles Buckley thought it over and refused. Biegenwald is quoted as saying: “‘I came to Jimmy [Fagen, the assistant prosecutor] at the beginning of the case and said, listen, I give ...
Apr 23, 1983 · The victims identified today are Betsy Bacon, who disappeared near her Sea Girt home last Nov. 20, and William J. Ward of North Wildwood, N.J. The Prosecutor said Mr. Ward was killed...
On Friday, August 27, the date of Anna Olesiewicz's disappearance, Smith drove around shore towns with Betsy, having contemplated and discussed with Biegenwald a plan to murder Betsy. Smith, however, called the defendant and told him that she could not go through with the murder plan, and she returned alone to the Asbury Park apartment to sleep.
Dec 15, 2023 · He went on to kill William Ward, a drug dealer and prison escapee whom he shot 3 or 4 times in the head in September 1982. Betsy Bacon also disappeared in November of the same year. His last known victim was Anna Olesiewicz, whose body was found in early 1983 with 4 bullets in her head.
Oct 31, 2010 · It was Anna Olesiewicz, an 18-year-old who, on Aug. 28, 1982, had gone looking for fun on the Asbury Park boardwalk, and disappeared. She had been shot four times in the head.
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Betsy Bacon—Disappeared November 20, 1982. [ 8 ] Of these murders, Biegenwald was convicted of murdering Sladowski, Ciallella, Osbourne, Olesiewicz, Ward & Bacon, three of whom he pleaded guilty to.
