On the night of October 9, 1991, 36-year-old Cornelius ’Corky’ Kasten III was killed in his Wayne, New Jersey, home. Kasten and his fiancée, Carol A. Ott, were attacked by Joseph M. Harris, a 35-year-old former postal worker and Navy veteran who had been fired from the Ridgewood post office; Ott had been involved in that dismissal. Harris arrived at the couple’s house wearing black fatigues and a bullet-proof vest and armed with two machine guns, grenades, and a samurai sword. He attacked Ott with the samurai sword and shot Kasten while Kasten was watching television in the basement recreation room.

After the home attack, Harris drove to the Ridgewood post office and killed two mail handlers, Joseph M. VanderPaauw and Donald McNaught, as they arrived for work. He then barricaded himself inside the building for about four and a half hours and threw explosives at police before surrendering at dawn. Harris was arrested and charged with four counts of murder, along with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, and weapons charges. If anyone knew Kasten or has information about his killing, please share what you remember.