Jose Castro Jr., 27, was found dead on Barretts Run Road in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, in the early morning of December 10, 2020. Investigators say Castro had been lured from his Ivy Square Apartments residence in Bridgeton on the evening of December 9; Joseph Lawrence, 26, of Millville, picked him up and drove him to a second location in Bridgeton. His body was then placed in a 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan and transported to the rural dump site.

The Dodge Grand Caravan was later located burned on a dirt access road off Gouldtown-Woodruff Road in Bridgeton. The New Jersey State Police and the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office arrested Lawrence, 26, Anthony Moore, 33, Armahd Smith, 29, and Frank Lee, 33; all four were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and held in the Cumberland County Jail. The motive and the full extent of the conspiracy remained under investigation.

Did anyone in the Bridgeton or Hopewell Township area see the 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan or the men named around December 9–10, 2020?