Author: Gerald Tomlinson
Subject: New Jersey and the Region/Criminology
Paper ISBN 0-8135-2078-9
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2077-0
Pages: 260 pp. 29 b&w illus."Gerald Tomlinson gives the gory details of 65 home-grown killings which took place here from 1922 through 1996. Yet despite its reputation for violence and marauding low life, the homicide rate of the Garden State is half that of New York, California, Texas, and four state in the Deep South. . . .
Tomlinson's murders and murderers are reported in graphic short shots, and all the well known ones show up-the Halls/Mills, Lindbergh, Unruh, Lamonaco, Unibomber and Black Liberation Army Joanne Chesimard cases-as well as a messy slew of others, including some from nearby, specifically the crimes of Robert Marshall of Toms River, and carjackkiller Michael LeSane of Berkeley Township. To be included in Tomlinson's black gallery, a murderer had to have one or more of the elements of 'steamy sex, an unknown killer or killers, prominent participants, more than one victim, shameful treatment of the deceased, and a shocking surprise or two . . .' And they all do, making for some absorbing, if gory, beach reading. We'll skip over the grisly details."-Beachcomber (Long Beach Island, New Jersey)
"Tomlinson writes with an irreverent, breezy style that suits the tabloid-type subject. He has a knack for telling a good story."--Marc Mappen, author of Jerseyana
"A solid resource."--Timothy B. Benford, author of Righteous Carnage
The Lindbergh kidnapping, the Dutch Schultz murder, the Hurricane Carter case, the Edgard Smith affair involving William F. Buckley, Jr., the slaying of the List family, the shooting of Trooper Philip Lamonaco, the contract killing of Maria Marshall, and the kidnapping and murder of Exxon executive Sidney Reso-all America followed with fascination these terrible crimes committed in New Jersey. These famous New Jersey cases--and fifty-two others, all front-page news in their day--are presented colorfully and concisely in Gerald Tomlinson's Murdered in Jersey, an illustrated look at homicide in the Garden State. For all true crime buffs in and out of New Jersey.
Gerald Tomlinson's mystery stories have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and he has written one mystery novel. He is the co-author of The New Jersey Book of Lists.
