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Anthony Scalia
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Emerald Giant
Get lost in thrilling mysteries. What if someone close to you just vanished?
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Karen Falaska
One Officer Dam.
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Emerald Giant
One Officer Dam and Criminal Investigations.
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Karen Falaska
I did not kill anybody. I have not murdered anybody all in one place.
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Anthony Scalia
This is infamous Chameleon Crooked City with smokes, cover up fire.
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Emerald Giant
Me Emerald Giant biologist. This is the Binge episodes all at once.
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Karen Falaska
The Binge.
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Anthony Scalia
Karen falaska was only 13 years old when she went to her sister Denise's funeral at St. Mary's Church in Kloster, New Jersey.
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Karen Falaska
I never saw so many people in my life. There were people there that we knew and there were people there that we didn't know. All kinds of characters.
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Anthony Scalia
Detectives were there too, looking for scratches on faces or cuts on hands. Signs of a violent struggle. And there were a lot of reporters.
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Karen Falaska
The media was all over us. They were hiding behind tombstones at the funeral. We were all in such a state of grief. We were wearing black dresses that were a little bit short. They snapped photos of us. They put them on the front pages. And we got bags and bags of hate mail from people telling my father that he deserved this, you know, the way he let these girls dress. She was looking for it.
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Anthony Scalia
Inside the church, Karen and her sisters had one last moment alone to say goodbye to Denise.
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Karen Falaska
I remember the three of us kneeling at her casket wishing that she was sleeping and that she would wake up. I felt disconnected from the whole world. She was beautiful, but she was dressed in a way she wouldn't have been caught dead in the clothes that she was wearing. They dressed her like, like a Pollyanna and she had her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She was dressed in this like button up shirt that buttoned all the way up to her chin to hide the ligature on her neck, which really wasn't hidden. You could see where she had been strangled. Her face was asymmetrical. It was just a little bit crooked.
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Anthony Scalia
People started filing in to pay their respects and Karen remembers seeing Denise's ex boyfriend in the crowd, a guy she doesn't want to name.
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Karen Falaska
Let's call him Max. Denise was trying to break up with Max. Max kept coming around and picking fights with her. He walked in, his parents were with him. His mom and his dad were on either side of him, and they were kind of ushering him in. And he sort of started shaking and he turned around and walked out. And I don't believe he ever went in. Seemed like he might have been crying or acting like he was crying or something.
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Anthony Scalia
Karen told me that Max was quoted in the local newspaper after Denise's murder.
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Karen Falaska
He said, oh, he had broken up with her and she had gone with a different crowd and he didn't know her anymore. And he lied in that quote. He totally lied. He was very involved with Denise.
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Anthony Scalia
Years later, as Karen looked back, she remembered just how weird Max was acting.
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Karen Falaska
All of that stuff, I just was taking in the stride of life. And I didn't think it had anything to do with Denise's death until I went back and looked again. The people that I thought were so good and so wonderful had really ill intent and were really bad.
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Anthony Scalia
My name is Anthony Scalia from Truth Media and Sony Music Entertainment. This is. Denise didn't come home.
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Karen Falaska
The body of a teenage girl found strangled in Saddle Brook, New Jersey yesterday.
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Anthony Scalia
Was identified as that of 15 year old Denise Velasco.
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Karen Falaska
She was murdered. Somebod. We tortured her and murdered her and stole her beauty for what known reason we would never know. I had a guy that drove by me real slow and gawked at me. He was like the devil himself. He scared me. I really go back to that last week that she was alive. A lot of crazy things happened that week. There's some real people to look at right under our nose. I think I know who killed her.
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Anthony Scalia
Chapter 2 the memory palace.
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Karen Falaska
Hello?
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Anthony Scalia
Hi, Karen.
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Karen Falaska
Hey, can you hear me?
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Anthony Scalia
Okay, can you say something really quick?
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Karen Falaska
Uh, hello? Hello?
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Anthony Scalia
Okay. Yeah. On my first few phone calls with Karen Falaska, I learned that we had a lot in common growing up in Bergen County. Large Italian families. Both my grandparents were immigrants and.
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Karen Falaska
Yeah, I know. I saw your pictures. Your family looks a lot like my family.
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Anthony Scalia
Yeah. I just found our conversation so fascinating. I remember canceling plans to hang out with my friends or my girlfriend because it was time to talk to Karen. Yeah, I already told my girlfriend. I was like, I can't. I'm having a phone call tonight. You know, like I'm in it, you know?
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Karen Falaska
Oh, God, she hates me already.
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Anthony Scalia
No, no, no, no. I never wanted the conversation to end. There were Some nights where she kept me on the phone until like 2:00 in the morning. I'm laying in bed, you know, the audio equipment's all away, the interview's over. And we just kept talking. It was only a couple phone calls in when Karen told me that she knew who murdered Denise. And I could tell she was nervous to talk about it.
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Karen Falaska
You know, I think I just have to be really careful. Like my theory is my theory based on everything that I saw and that I've been able to piece together as an adult.
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Anthony Scalia
I think your theories are crucial to the story because it's the side that no one's heard for 50 years and.
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Karen Falaska
It'S people that are still alive. There's some real people to look at. And those people were never even questioned. They should have been the first people questioned. And they were never even questioned.
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Anthony Scalia
So I sat in my little makeshift recording booth in my parents basement as Karen took me back to 1969.
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Karen Falaska
We had pretty much run of the house, you know, partied very much in that house, you know, and we could clean it up really fast too, you know, like my parents went out for the night and all the kids came over and it was a pretty big party, 20, 30 people. They were drinking beer. Not me. I was supposed to be the lookout. I was stationed in the upstairs big room window watching for my father's car. I wasn't paying attention. And all of a sudden I looked out the window and my dad was pulling in the driveway. And I just started yelling, he's home, he's home. And everybody ran out the back door. My dad was like a little gorilla. He wasn't a real big guy, but he just acted like a little mafia scary guy. He went chasing out the back door after some of these kids.
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Anthony Scalia
But there was one kid who didn't run. Denise's boyfriend at the time, Max.
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Karen Falaska
He just sat on the couch as calm and as cool as a cucumber, which blew my mind. I just remember that that sticks in my craw a little bit that he just had this composure that was unusual. She seemed to be in control of everything and everyone.
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Anthony Scalia
Denise had been dating Max for almost a year.
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Karen Falaska
Max was very good looking, seemingly perfect, smooth, cool, composed. He liked Denise and he came and asked my dad if he could take her out. He had a car. My dad would let her go in his car, which was really unusual for my dad. There's this really handsome guy that everybody loves and every girl would want to be with, you know, and here he was in our living room. With our Denise. And at the time, I liked him very much and I looked up to him. I just was enamored with the whole thing. I was trying to take notes and like, how did she do this? So it all looked very romantic to me, almost like a fairy tale.
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Anthony Scalia
But the fairy tale didn't last. Later that summer, Denise started hanging out with someone new.
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Karen Falaska
His name was Ron. And she was sort of trying to break up with Max. And it really wasn't going well. On the 4th of July, we went to the fireworks as a family and how Denise wound up over in the parking lot of Memorial field talking to Max. The next thing you know, there's a big fight in the parking lot and everybody went over there. And when we got over there, we realized it was Denise and Max in his car. She was like pushing him off of her, fighting, and it was a physical struggle. A cop opened the car door and pulled Denise out of the car, told Max to get out of here and brought Denise over to my father. She was crying. My dad put his arm around her, comforted her, and was really upset with what had happened and didn't really want her to see him anymore. Let me tell you something about Max. He could have had any girl he wanted. And I have a feeling people didn't say no to him very much. You know what I mean? I think when Denise was trying to say she didn't want to be with him anymore, that was how I think he took it. If I can't have you, then no one can.
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Indra Varma
I'm Indra Varma. And in the latest season of the Spy who, we open the file on Daphne park, the spy who killed a prime minister. As the Belgian Congo gains its independence, Officer park sets out to build a spy network. Together, they're about to go to new extremes to keep Congo free of communists. Follow the spy who now wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Emerald Giant
From the award winning creators of the hit podcast Father Wants us Dead comes the stunning new true crime series. In the shadow of Princeton in 1989, a prominent woman was found stabbed to death in her Princeton home. With no clear motive. It's a chilling mystery that vexed investigators for years. Was the culprit a young outsider the police said was a serial attacker? Or someone in her family or even well heeled students at the renowned Princeton University.
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Afwah Hirsch
He had a ski mask in his.
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Karen Falaska
Possession and a knife.
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Anthony Scalia
She was familiar enough with them and.
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Afwah Hirsch
Trusted them enough that she turned her back on him. And that was her mistake.
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Emerald Giant
One investigator sees a conspiracy. Is he way off base? Or does privilege help you get away with murder? In the Shadow of Princeton is available wherever you get your podcasts, or you can binge it ad free by joining Wondery plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.
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Karen Falaska
In my house on Saturdays, the Alaska girls had to clean the house.
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Anthony Scalia
That's what Karen Falaska and her sisters were doing on Saturday, July 12, two days before Denise was killed.
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Karen Falaska
We were busy working in the house. Music was cranking. It was a pretty big house, and we all had our jobs. And the phone rang, and it was Max. Denise and him were yelling back and forth at one another, and she slammed the phone down. And then Max came over and parked on the side of the house. She went outside to talk to him for just a little while. I was like Harriet the Spy. I went outside and I was hiding in the bushes along the side of the house because I was watching them. I staked those guys out. They were arguing, and I really couldn't hear what they were saying, but they were arguing. He had his hand up on the car door, and he sort of had her kind of blocked in there. They were getting into a real heated argument. I know that it was about Ron.
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Anthony Scalia
Ron was that new guy Denise had just started dating.
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Karen Falaska
And then they saw me, and they both, I mean, in two part harmony, said, karen, get out of here. And I took off. I mean, I was terrified that I got caught. I ran into the house, and a few minutes later, she came in behind me. And she was really mad, but she was also really upset. She had been crying. But then she started cleaning. Denise started acting real funny. We were asking her, what's wrong with you? And she was like, nothing's wrong with me. I'm okay. My sister Diane was like, did you take something? And she was swearing up and down. She hadn't taken anything, but she would tell us if she had done something like that. Meanwhile, she was getting worse and worse and worse and really couldn't walk, couldn't talk. We had no idea what happened to her. We put Denise upstairs in the big bedroom, and we were trying to get everything done and keep an eye on her, but the next thing you know, we heard her screaming. And she was yelling out Max's name and saying, no, no. Diane and I ran into her room to find out what was going on, and she was literally hanging out her window, like, almost falling out the window. And Diane and I pulled her back in, and when we did, we saw Max park in front of the house, making threats up to the window. I Heard him say, I will kill you, bitch. It was a wild weekend for Denise. It was a bad weekend for Denise. Culminated in the unspeakable.
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Anthony Scalia
Karen remembers that on the night of the murder, before she and Denise left the house to catch a bus to the movies, Denise got a phone call.
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Karen Falaska
She had another fight with this guy Max on the telephone. She did throw his high school ring and his ankle bracelet and whatever in her purse. And then we kind of just huffed out the door together. She slammed that phone down, and we left the house. She looked at me and she said, I have to go do something. My feeling was she was walking to meet Max. My thought was she was going to give him back some things that he had given her and then go meet her new friend, Ron.
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Anthony Scalia
According to Karen, Denise said she would meet her later that night at a friend's apartment. Then she walked off down Old Hook Road. Karen was left at the bus stop alone. And that's when she saw that creepy guy in the blue sedan. He passed by a few times before speeding off down Old Hook Road in Denise's direction.
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Karen Falaska
So while I was waiting, Ron passed me by as I was standing at the bus stop, and I waved him down, and he pulled over, and I ran to his car and jumped in.
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Anthony Scalia
Ron was that new guy Denise had just started dating.
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Karen Falaska
He said, where are you going? I said, I'm going to Bergenfield. But Denise on her way to meet you, I think. And he went, well, I just drove that way and didn't see her.
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Anthony Scalia
Ron gave Karen a ride to the movies. She saw Ice Station Zebra, and then she went to meet up with Denise.
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Karen Falaska
We walked into the hallway of this kind of rundown apartment building. We knocked on the door. The door opened, and I saw Ron. He opened the door and started walking us back. Like, get away, get away, kind of.
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Anthony Scalia
Karen says she glanced into the apartment. She didn't see Denise, but she was surprised to see someone else. Max.
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Karen Falaska
I could not for the life of me understand what they were doing in a room together. They weren't friends. They didn't hang out together.
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Anthony Scalia
Up until that point. Had you ever seen Max and Ron in the same room?
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Karen Falaska
Never. They did not want us in there, and they pushed us back from the door. So I think there was something in there they didn't want me to see.
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Anthony Scalia
I want to know what was going on that night in that room.
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Karen Falaska
I know.
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Anthony Scalia
Eventually, Ron came out to give Karen a ride home.
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Karen Falaska
When I told him I would tell Denise that, he said hi. He told me he didn't think he would be seeing Denise anymore. And he cried. He was crying.
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Anthony Scalia
The next day, Denise's body was found beaten and strangled on the side of the road beside a cemetery. And the following morning, Bergen county detectives came to the Falaska home.
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Karen Falaska
And next thing I know, this detective is dragging me away and saying to my father, jack, I gotta talk to her. Jack, I gotta talk to her right now. And my dad going, okay, Rudy, go ahead. I needed help and protection. And what I got was dragged off to a police station interrogation room. The Bergen county homicide squad, they were like thugs with badges back in the day. They were scary guys. They're now asking me to reconstruct in vivid details what happened from the day she left the house to the moment of sitting in the police department.
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Anthony Scalia
But Karen was just 13 and she had just learned that her sister had been murdered.
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Karen Falaska
They were saying, where did you go the night that you and Denise left the house? And I said, I went to Bergenfield. And they were like, how did you get there? And I just did not remember. I was saying, I took the bus.
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Anthony Scalia
What Karen didn't remember at that moment was that Ron had picked her up at the bus stop and driven her to the movies in Bergenfield. Detectives were questioning Ron in the next room.
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Karen Falaska
They would go in the next room and he would say, I picked up Karen. And then they would come back to me and say, how did you get to Bergenfield that night? And then I said, I took the bus.
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Anthony Scalia
To the detectives, it looked like Ron was lying. The cops kept Ron, a 17 year old kid, all night long and into the early morning. He was exhausted and emotionally distraught. Finally, at around 3am, he broke down. I was alone when it happened. I guess it happened in Saddlebrook.
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Karen Falaska
Did you kill her in the car in Saddlebrook?
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Anthony Scalia
Yes.
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Karen Falaska
Where?
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Anthony Scalia
Off Route 46. For a minute, the cops thought they had their guy. But then they asked Karen one more time. Did Ron drive you to the movies?
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Karen Falaska
Did or didn't Ron pick me up on Monday night? And I was like, yes, he did. Yeah, Because I didn't remember. I didn't remember.
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Anthony Scalia
There were no other witnesses who could put Ron and Denise together that night. And there was no physical evidence on her body like hair, blood or fibers to connect him to the murder. It became clear that Ron's confession was false. Eventually, the police let him go.
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Karen Falaska
Anthony. There were hundreds of people at my house, and there were people driving up and down the street, pointing at the house.
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Anthony Scalia
When Karen came back from the police station, her house was a circus.
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Karen Falaska
There were reporters all over the place in the yard, in the house. There were neighbors, friends of my parents, relatives, and I had a big family.
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Anthony Scalia
And Karen remembers seeing Max among all those people. He was there with his friend.
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Karen Falaska
And I went straight to them and I fell apart. And I just fell apart. Like, I broke down crying and they were like, it's okay, it's okay. And they said, go ask your dad if you can come with us and we'll take you away from this. So I went and asked my dad if I could go with them. And he just said yeah. And like, really, I shouldn't have been with them.
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Anthony Scalia
Karen says that Max took her to a local cafe, that he was quiet and looked extremely tired. And that's when Karen noticed something else.
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Karen Falaska
I saw this really deep dash of a wound on his hand. It was an open, gaping wound on his palm of his hand.
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Anthony Scalia
Max told her he messed up his hand fixing his car. But Karen would always think about that gash. Over the years, it would loom larger in her mind and it would become crucial to her theory that Maximum had murdered Denise.
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Anthony Scalia
In the days and weeks after Denise's murder, Karen told me that Denise's ex boyfriend, Max, started hanging around their house a lot. And he seemed to want to spend a lot of time with Karen.
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Karen Falaska
Max came over to my house and said to my dad, Mr. Pulaska, can I take Karen for a ride, get her mind off of all this crazy stuff? And he said, sure, and I drove off with him.
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Anthony Scalia
Karen said that Max took her to a car park overlooking the Hudson River.
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Karen Falaska
We used to have a name for that place. We used to call it the Rock. He took me up to the rock. It was dark. It was getting dark out. And he moved real close to me, like, real close to me, and was staring at me. And it was just really bizarre because he was a lot older than me. A lot older than me. He kissed me hard, really hard. He kissed me so hard, he split my lip. It was awful. It was terrifying. I had never kissed a guy and didn't want to kiss him, but he just kind of forced it on me. Like, I got upset. I started to cry, and he got angry, said, let's go. And he just basically threw me in the car, drove me home, pushed me out of the car, drove off. And he never talked to me after that. Like, acted like he didn't know me after that. It was just evil. It was just, I killed her, and now I kissed her sister or something. Like, I don't know.
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Anthony Scalia
What do you think his intention was?
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Karen Falaska
I have no idea to this day, but when I look back on it, those events were so scary. I really feel like I was in a lot of danger.
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Anthony Scalia
By that point. Karen and I had been talking for weeks now. I just wanted to make sense of everything she told me. Now I'm just wondering, like. Cause I'm just trying to figure out from my own sort of rash, you know, it's.
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Karen Falaska
It's crazy. And I know it's. It's crazy.
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Anthony Scalia
Was Karen saying that Max killed Denise alone? Was she saying that Ron was in on it? That seemed crazy to me, that these teenagers who didn't even know each other had gotten together and murdered a young girl and dumped her on the side of a road?
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Karen Falaska
It's not that I have this wild imagination, I swear to you. I really don't. I had seen a lot of things that add up to something in my mind, but I could Be wrong. I could be totally wrong. But it really adds up in my mind.
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Anthony Scalia
I was starting to wonder if there was any way to confirm these memories if I wanted to, let's say, request the case files.
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Karen Falaska
Oh yeah. Well, you'd never get them. You'd never get them in a million years.
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Anthony Scalia
Really?
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Karen Falaska
Oh no. It's not releasable.
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Anthony Scalia
I said, okay, no case file. Not happening. What's next? Newspaper articles. I did everything the hard way. I could have just made a Newspapers.com account, typed in Denise Velaska and got every article ever written. What did I do? Not that. I went to the Hackensack library. I was like, excuse me, ma'am. I want newspapers from 1969. And they were like, oh, okay. That's in the archives in the basement. I was like, okay. So I go down to the basement. They open up this drawer. I thought it was going to be paper, you know, and it was like these little canisters of film. I was like, what the fuck is that? They said it's microfilm. So now I'm scrolling through film of these newspapers and it's all yellow and dirty. So what did Karen tell me? She said she left the house around 6:00 to make the 7:00 movie. So I went to the newspaper and I found movie listings. You know, I found Ice Station Zebra playing at the Bergenfield palace movie theater. And I looked at the show times and it said 7:00. Karen was right. So I kept flipping until I found the paper that came out the day after denise was found. July 16, 1969. And it said, you know, 15 year old girl from Kloster found strangled in Saddlebrook. And I was like, okay, here we go. Karen had told me that after Denise's murder, Max tried to distance himself a lot from this case. I think in the first or second article there was a quote from Max saying he hadn't seen Denise in over a year. She'd gone with a different crowd. He wasn't in touch with her anymore. I was like, oh my God. This is exactly what she's been talking about. It just verified everything she had said. Like, here's this guy within days of the murder, really distancing himself from the situation. Karen knows what she's talking about. So I keep flipping and I find another article. And it says, this is not the first time a teenage girl has been found strangled in Bergen County. This murder is similar to the murder of Irene Blaze, who was killed four months ago, a mile away from where Denise's body was. Found. And it's similar to the 1968 murder of a young girl named Jacqueline Harp. And before that, There was a 1967 murder of a woman named Nancy Vogel. And I start going through and finding those articles, looking and seeing what matches up. You know, age 13, 15, 18.
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Afwah Hirsch
Look.
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Anthony Scalia
Two out of the four had a similar look. Every woman here has been strangled. Truly, in that moment, sitting there with the microfilm with that dumb look on my face, is when I realized Denise's case could be connected to at least three other murders in Bergen County. This could be the work of one man. There could be a serial killer roaming the streets of Bergen county that no one has found. And I said, holy shit. On the next episode of Denise Didn't Come Home, I do some digging into the other murders in Bergen County. These unsolved cases haunted the Bergen County Prosecutor's office for many years. And find a trail of destruction left by a monster.
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Karen Falaska
Two carefully decapitated female bodies were found at a Westside motel.
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George Drabing Hicks
The room was then set on fire.
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Anthony Scalia
Unlock all episodes of Denise Didn't Come Home ad free right now by subscribing to the Binge Podcast Channel. Not only will you immediately unlock all episodes of this show, but you'll get binge access to an entire network of thrilling true crime and investigative podcasts. All ad free. Plus, on the first of every month, subscribers get a binge drop of a brand new series that's all episodes all at once. Unlock your listening now by clicking subscribe at the top of the Binge Cases show page on Apple podcasts or visit getthebinge.com to get access wherever you listen. Denise Didn't Come Home is a production of Truth Media in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. I'm your host, Anthony Scalia. The show is produced by Ryan Swigert and me. Story editing by Mark Smerling. Kevin Shepard is our associate producer. Scott Curtis is our production manager from Sony. Our executive producers are Jonathan Hirsch and Catherine St. Louis. Fact checking by Dania Suleman. George Drabing Hicks did the mix. Sound design by George Drabing Hicks and Ryan Swiker. Music by Kenny Cusack, Epidemic Sound and Marmoset. Our title track is Gimme Some by Weevil. If you're enjoying Denise Didn't Come Home, don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people find the show and thanks for listening.
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George Drabing Hicks
Cascade Natural Gas believes a warm home, hot water and natural gas energy should be available to everyone. That's why Cascade established the Oregon Low Income bill Assistance and Energy discount programs. These programs provide income qualified applicants a discount on their monthly bill and, if needed, help with past due balances. Qualifying for assistance is easy by calling Cascade or any of our partner community action agencies. Get complete bill assistance info@cngc.com help.