Peggy

“Both killings were chronicled in the 2015 book, Death on the Devil’s Teeth, by Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran.”
― Joe Strupp, A Long Walk Home: A young woman’s unsolved murder and her sister’s lifelong search for answers

“Then there was EST (Erhard Training Seminars), the international self-help events that first broke on to the scene in the 1970s and were still going in the mid-1980s when Cynthia hooked up with them.”
― Joe Strupp, A Long Walk Home: A young woman’s unsolved murder and her sister’s lifelong search for answers

“After the ceremony, Cynthia, Angela, and Gabe went shopping at the Livingston Mall. No gifts, grad parties, or Jersey Shore morning-after drives. Cynthia recalls her parents’ lack of interest”
― Joe Strupp, A Long Walk Home: A young woman’s unsolved murder and her sister’s lifelong search for answers

“But when Perna first put on the uniform in the late 1980s there was another unsolved murder case in town that drew attention for its organized crime ties, blatant ruthlessness, and murder-for-hire origins. The “Pizza Killing,” as it was dubbed, even sounded like a mob movie or an episode of The Sopranos, with everything except a theme song. Edward Potcher, 37, owned Jack’s Pizzeria at the corner of Springfield and Boyden avenues in Maplewood when he was shot four times at close range on August 12, 1986, in the pizzeria. He died just hours later.”
― Joe Strupp, A Long Walk Home: A young woman’s unsolved murder and her sister’s lifelong search for answers