Deborah Osborne, a 17-year-old white female from Toms River, New Jersey, disappeared in early April 1982, swallowed by the kind of ordinary night that was supposed to end with a ride home and a locked front door. Later reporting would tie her last-known timeline to April 8, 1982—the day she was reported missing—while prosecutors would date the killing to April 7 as the case moved into court.
For months there was nothing to find—no safe return, no clear trail—until the investigati
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