On the morning of October 10, 1991, 59-year-old mail handler Johannes VanderPaauw was ambushed and fatally shot as he arrived for his shift at the Ridgewood, New Jersey post office. VanderPaauw was one of four people killed in a violent rampage carried out by a disgruntled former postal worker, Joseph M. Harris. The night before, Harris had murdered his former supervisor, Carol Ott, with a samurai sword and shot Ott’s boyfriend, Cornelius Kasten Jr., at Ott’s home in Wayne, New Jersey.

Armed with a machine gun, grenades, and the sword, Harris proceeded to the Ridgewood post office where he also killed colleague Donald McNaught. After the killings at the post office he barricaded himself inside, detonated two explosive devices during a four-and-a-half-hour standoff, and ultimately surrendered. Harris left a note complaining about his dismissal from the postal service and had booby-trapped his apartment.

Harris was charged with four counts of murder, convicted in 1992, and sentenced to death; he later died in prison in September 1996. Does anyone remember VanderPaauw at the Ridgewood facility or have information about his work or colleagues there?