Joan passed away Sept. 1968 when she was twenty-two years of age. She was employed at Hoffman La Roche. I graduated grade school with her in 1960 and then later high school at Passaic Valley in 1964. Ron Falasca
I knew Joan well and the story of her death was a shocker. I searched online and found this article.
This story was published in the Star-Ledger on March 8,2005. It was written by Mark Mueller and Russell Ben-Ali. This is an exerpt from that article.
No one but the killer witnessed her death. No one heard her cries.
Joan Freeman died in a second-floor office in a complex of buildings ringed by chain link and guard shacks. Because of the restricted access, detectives were certain a co-worker committed the crime.
But which one? And why?
Freeman was 22, a former high school cheerleader working as a secretary for Hoffmann-La Roche, the pharmaceutical firm whose New Jersey campus straddles Nutley and Clifton. She had no known enemies, no habits or relationships that might have invited the savage beating and slashing on a Saturday afternoon in 1968.
Investigators never found a motive, and after 37 years they haven't found a killer. It is the coldest of cold cases, its voluminous files boxed and gathering dust.
The full article contains a rather graphic description of the murder, so I chose not to show it. The link below will take you there. Just copy and paste it to your browser. I could not provide a direct link because this website does not permit it.
After graduating P.V., Joan and I commuted to Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in Montclair together. Her death was such a shock. Although I do not live in the area any longer, I occasionally travel Route 3 and think of her all the time when passing the old Roche complex. Thank you for posting her picture.
Ronald Falasca (1964)
Joan passed away Sept. 1968 when she was twenty-two years of age. She was employed at Hoffman La Roche. I graduated grade school with her in 1960 and then later high school at Passaic Valley in 1964. Ron Falasca
Victor John Cornetto (1964)
A picture of Joan at work.
I knew Joan well and the story of her death was a shocker. I searched online and found this article.
This story was published in the Star-Ledger on March 8,2005. It was written by Mark Mueller and Russell Ben-Ali. This is an exerpt from that article.
No one but the killer witnessed her death. No one heard her cries.
Joan Freeman died in a second-floor office in a complex of buildings ringed by chain link and guard shacks. Because of the restricted access, detectives were certain a co-worker committed the crime.
But which one? And why?
Freeman was 22, a former high school cheerleader working as a secretary for Hoffmann-La Roche, the pharmaceutical firm whose New Jersey campus straddles Nutley and Clifton. She had no known enemies, no habits or relationships that might have invited the savage beating and slashing on a Saturday afternoon in 1968.
Investigators never found a motive, and after 37 years they haven't found a killer. It is the coldest of cold cases, its voluminous files boxed and gathering dust.
The full article contains a rather graphic description of the murder, so I chose not to show it. The link below will take you there. Just copy and paste it to your browser. I could not provide a direct link because this website does not permit it.
Read the full article at:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/from_the_archives_in_hunt_for_killer_police_will_r.html
Diane Marie Sabo (Gavin) (1964)
After graduating P.V., Joan and I commuted to Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in Montclair together. Her death was such a shock. Although I do not live in the area any longer, I occasionally travel Route 3 and think of her all the time when passing the old Roche complex. Thank you for posting her picture.