On December 13, 1974, 14-year-old Doreen Ann Carlucci went missing from Woodbridge, New Jersey, after attending a church recreation function with a friend, Joanne Delardo. Both girls vanished that day; Doreen is listed with a birthdate of June 18, 1960 and was pronounced dead on the date of her disappearance.Doreen and Joanne’s bodies were found on December 27, 1974, in a wooded area in Manalapan, more than twenty miles south of where they were last seen.

Both had been beaten and strangled with an electrical cord, and their deaths were investigated as homicides.Investigators have long focused on Robert Zarinsky as a primary suspect in the killings, though he was never charged in this case. Richard Cottingham has also been mentioned because ligature strangulation and certain abduction details resemble his known crimes.

No arrest and conviction in Doreen’s murder have been made, and the case remains officially unsolved.Is there anyone who knew Doreen or Joanne, or who has information about their movements on December 13, 1974, who can help move this case forward?