Joan Zwingman

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 ...

Joan Zwingman and Christine Pilczak – Virginia Beach Police ...