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Joanne Delardo

Case from Woodbridge, NJ dated Dec 13, 1974

Victim Details

Joanne Delardo

Female

White / Caucasian

Woodbridge

NJ

1974-12-13

15

Joanne

Delardo

06/25/2026

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On a cold December day in 1974, 15-year-old Joanne Delardo and her friend Doreen Carlucci, 14, vanished from a church recreational event in their hometown of Woodbridge, New Jersey. Initially, their disappearance on December 13th was dismissed by the Woodbridge Police Department as a case of teenage runaways. This assumption was tragically shattered two weeks later when their bodies were discovered in a wooded area in Manalapan, more than twenty miles away.

The grim discovery on December ...
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  • State v. Zarinsky :: 1976 - Justia Law
  • Bodies of Two Girls, Apparently Slain, Are Found in Jersey
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