The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald

by John E. O'Rourke

Overview

Beachgoers usually dread riptides and rainy days, but from 1974 to 1983, a different fear gripped the New Jersey Shore: young women were disappearing. Their abductor was Richard Biegenwald, a man released for good behavior after serving seventeen years in prison for murder and spending time in a psychiatric facility. Police arrested him on suspicion of rape, and it was not until they connected him to a woman's death in Asbury Park that he finally stopped his rampage. Investigators later linked him to nine murders and convicted him of five. Former New Jersey state trooper John O'Rourke narrates the chilling story of the Jersey Shore Thrill Killer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626192874
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/07/2014
Series:	True Crime
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	522,755
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John E. O'Rourke was born in Pequannock, New Jersey, and raised in the Passaic County town of Wanaque. He is a retired New Jersey State Trooper with twenty-six years of experience with the elite organization. During his distinguished career, he conducted hundreds of criminal investigations ranging from criminal trespass to murder. He is the author of Jersey Troopers: Sacrifice at the Altar of Public Service" and "New Jersey State Troopers: 1961, 2011, Remembering the Fallen."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

1 Bayonne, December 18, 1958 9

2 "Have Gun-Am Traveling" 15

3 Getaway 23

4 "I Don't Know How We Didn't Get Killed" 29

5 A Troubled Youth 37

6 Life in Prison 41

7 The Light Becomes Brighter 47

8 Cold Case 53

9 Anna Marie Olesiewicz 59

10 Key Witness 65

11 The Takedown 71

12 Long Night 79

13 Dead-Ends 85

14 Guns, Drugs and Killings 89

15 "Perverted, Sick Individuals" 93

16 "It's a Chop Job" 97

17 "It Was a Terrible Thing" 103

18 'All This Guy Had on His Mind Was Killing, Killing, Killing" 109

19 "He Already Tried the Case in the Newspaper" 115

20 Questions but No Answers 125

About the Author 128