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2 women, in town for a convention, are found murdered in Chesapeake Bay
Joan Zwingman, a 26-year-old White woman, was in Virginia Beach in mid-August 1983 on a work-related trip, traveling from New Jersey alongside her friend and colleague Christine Pilczak. By the evening of August 18, the two women were seen alive, and then—suddenly—they vanished into the warm, crowded tide of a resort city that had no reason to expect the night would end in tragedy.

The next day, Friday, August 19, 1983, the Chesapeake Bay gave them back. After pilot boat operators sp ...Read More
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Victim Details

Joan Zwing

September 3, 2022

Female

White / Caucasian

Virginia Beach

VA

1983-08-19

1983-08-19

26

Joan

Zwingman

Brown

Green

5'6

141 lbsn

01/06/2026


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