Jacqueline Martarella was 19 and a 1984 Oceanside High School graduate when she vanished on the evening of March 26, 1985. Leaving a friend’s house between 7:30 and 8:00 PM to walk to her job at a Burger King, she never arrived. Family members insisted she would not have run away; friends described her as timid but quietly determined, saving for a white Camaro and looking forward to her future.

On April 22, 1985, her body was found nude in a marshy area near the 17th hole of the Woodmere Country Club golf course. The cause of death was strangulation. No arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly named. Her case is often mentioned alongside two other local teens from the same period, Theresa Fusco and Kelly Morrissey, because all three were walking alone when they disappeared.

Are there memories, sightings, or pieces of information from 1985 that anyone who lived in the area can share to help fill gaps in Jacqueline’s last known movements?