Dec. 16, 2025
Chapter 125: Killed in Plain Sight-The Murder of Joyce Paneck-Saglimbene
A quiet afternoon. A parking garage. A crime that would haunt a community for decades. The murder of Joyce Paneck-Saglimbene in 1976 shocked Englewood, New Jersey, but with little evidence and no suspects, her case faded into obscurity for three...
A quiet afternoon. A parking garage. A crime that would haunt a community for decades.
The murder of Joyce Paneck-Saglimbene in 1976 shocked Englewood, New Jersey, but with little evidence and no suspects, her case faded into obscurity for three decades. As hope for justice waned, a sudden arrest brought her case back into the spotlight, but was the killer really found?
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Alaya, A. M. (2006, August 24). DNA results could sway case in secretary’s 1976 killing. The Star Ledger, A17–A21.Arias, L. (2006, August 30).
Arrest made in 1976 murder case. Northern Valley Suburbanite, 6.
Bronx man arrested in 30-year-old murder. (2006, August 23). The Daily Journal, A5.Content, C. (2019, January 11).
Cold case: criminal activity assured. New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/2009/08/29/cold-case-criminal-activity-assured/Dillon, N. (2018, April 9). HE's GOT TO PAY FOR 76' SLAY, EX-HUBBY SAYS. New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/2006/08/24/hes-got-to-pay-for-76-slay-ex-hubby-says/Dillon, N., Bode, N., & Kadushin, P. (2018, April 9). HIS KILLER PAST.BELOVED, HARDWORKING BX. DAD IS CHARGED WITH STABBING WOMAN 19 TIMES IN 1976 JERSEY SLAYING. New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/2006/08/23/his-killer-past-beloved-hardworking-bx-dad-is-charged-with-stabbing-woman-19-times-in-1976-jersey-slaying/Feuer, A. (2006, August 23). Arrest in a 30-Year-Old Murder Case Reignites the Pain of a Victim’s Family. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/nyregion/23cold.htmlMarkos, K. (2008, September 19). Man pleads guilty in 1976 slaying. The Record, L1.Meuller, M., & Peet, J. (2006, August 23). To her brother, victim will always be 27, smiling and beautiful. The Star Ledger, 5.Mongelli, L. (2006, August 23). SLAY BUST ENDS 30-YEAR WEIGHT - “PEACE” AT LAST FOR ’76 VICTIM’S BROTHER. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2006/08/23/slay-bust-ends-30-year-weight-peace-at-last-for-76-victims-brother/The Record Staff. (1976, May 16). Police seek firm clues in murder. The Sunday Record, A24.
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years after the fact. This is the murder of Joyce
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Pineck Sagline Benet. Joyce Pineck was born in Valley Stream,
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Long Island to mister and missus Joseph Pineck. Joe was
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a carpenter and Joyce's mother was a homemaker, working part
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time to supplement the family's middle class income. When Joyce
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was seven, her younger brother, Richard was born, and the
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two were very close. According to an interview Richard did
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with The Star Ledger, Joyce though petit was incredibly beautiful
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quote like a model with long brown hair, and she
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loved a good prank. She attended high school at Dominican
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Commercial High and All Girls Catholic School in Queen's known
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for training students to become secretary raised, and while there
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she fell in love with theater. Richard spoke of how
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Joyce would quote walk around with a book on her
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head day after day so that she would have good
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posture on stage, and she did. Her neighbor and school friend,
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Mary and Rosso, told The Daily News that Joyce was
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always so full of life quote a fun person, smart, energetic,
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full of potential. Joyce always quick to smile, also had
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a fierce love for animals, and the Pene's home always
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had a small menagerie around, with Joyce taking care of cats, dogs,
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and even lizards, which were her favorite. At sixteen, Joyce
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started dating a boy named Ron Saglam Bennet, and they
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stayed together all through high school, continuing to date in college.
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After graduating from Dominican, Joyce attended Nassau Community College, obtaining
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an associate's degree when she he was twenty one, Ron
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and Joyce married and moved to Burginfield, New Jersey, with
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Ron continuing his studies to become a dentist and Joyce
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got a job for Volvo's Northeast regional headquarters in Rockley.
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The couple would ultimately divorce a few years after their wedding,
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when Joyce was around twenty six, but according to Ron,
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it was a very amicable split and the two remained close,
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talking on the phone regularly. Joyce moved out of the
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home they shared and found an apartment on Esther Street
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in Teeneck, New Jersey, about fifteen minutes from where she
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and Ron used to live, and she also got a
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new job working as a secretary for Diebold Computer Company
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at their penthouse office located on North Dean Street in Englewood.
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While the divorce had been hard on her, as it
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is for anybody going through one. She was finding happiness
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in her animals, her two dogs, a multies named Cherie
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and a poodle named Brandy, as well as her two lizards.
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She also quickly found love again, meeting a man from
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Teaneck named John Bugelli in nineteen seventy five, and the
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two were engaged soon after they started dating. Richard told
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the Star Ledger that Joyce was enjoying life again. Quote
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she loved her new engagement ring. She'd jump up and
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down and show it to everybody. She danced around and
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used her hands a lot. She was enjoying her life
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so much. In the winter of nineteen seventy five, Joyce
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and John took a trip to the Catskills to visit
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Marianne and her family, and she spoke of how happy
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the couple seemed. According to the Daily News, Joyce was
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really enjoying her new job and was even considering going
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back to school to obtain her bachelor's degree. After a
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tough year, things were finally falling back into place. But
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after this visit, mari Anne would never see her friend again.
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May fourteenth, nineteen seventy six. According to an article for
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The Sunday Record, a motor is driving by the parking
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garage at one seventy seven North Dean Street, across the
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street from Diebolt Computer company called the police after spotting
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a woman in the garage waving her arms for help.
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Police arrived at twelve forty five pm and discovered the
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body of a young woman near the entrance to the
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garage between two dumpsters, covered in blood, with defensive wounds
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visible on her hands and arms. The woman had been
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stabbed nineteen times and was quickly identified as twenty seven
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year old Joyce pinec Saglambnet, who was on her lunch
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break at the time of her death. Pretty quickly, as
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they processed the crime scene, investigators believed Joyce was possibly
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the victim of a robbery gone wrong. As they searched,
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investigators found her purse empty of money by containing some
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credit cards, and in her car that was parked nearby,
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they found a few potted plants. Lieutenant Canodelia of the
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Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and Englewood Police was in charge
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of the investigation, and he and other investigators on the
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scene started interviewing witnesses and canvassing the area, which was
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mostly commercial with various businesses in doctor's offices up and
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down Dean Street, trying to determine Joyce's last movements based
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on what they learned. Joyce had called her ex husband
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Ron that morning, according to The Daily News, asking if
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he would lend her money to go and enroll in
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college courses. He said quote, she was getting on with
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her life. She was happy and looking forward to getting
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married and getting back to school. After talking to Ron,
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she cashed a check for fifteen dollars, then she headed
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to work, taking her lunch at twelve pm. She exited
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the building with two female coworkers at twelve oh five,
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declining going to grab something to eat, telling none that
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she had e in a big dinner the night before
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and was going to run some errands. She wanted to
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buy some new plants for her apartment, so she picked
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them up at a local store and brought them back
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to where her car was located on the first floor
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of the parking garage. Police believed that as she prepared
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to head back to work, she was approached by someone
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attempting to steal her purse and speaking with witnesses nearby,
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Police announced they were looking for a teenager who had
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been spotted sitting on a low wall near the crime scene.
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The boy was described as quote being five foot ten, black,
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with short hair, and wearing a blue jacket with white stripes.
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A composite sketch was made of the teenager and distributed
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for residents to be on the lookout for, but it
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was not announced in nineteen seventy six if the boy
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was a possible suspect or another witness. Police also spoke
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with Joyce's Beyonce John, who informed police that she and
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her coworkers had been worried about a recent string of
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car robberies and purse snatchings that had been occurring in
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the area. Joyce's brother, Richard, who was around twenty years
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old at the time and getting ready to enlisten the Army,
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was sleeping after a night shift at a service station
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near the Pineck family home, according to The New York Times,
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when he was awoken by his mother's screaming when police
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called to notify Joyce's family of her murder. Quote. I
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heard my mother scream, no, not my daughter. Then my
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father was talking to some detective. I ran into the kitchen.
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It was lunchtime. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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The pain of losing Joyce so violently would persist for
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the pin Neck family as police struggled to find her killer.
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While they were able to collect dnaise samples from her
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body as well as the blood found on her person wallet,
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nineteen seventy six was still a long way from the
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capabilities of modern forensic technology to effectively process blood and
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DNA samples. According to an article for The Northern Valley
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Suburbanite published in two thousand and six, the original investigators
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did manage to find the teenager they were looking for,
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a thirteen year old boy from Anglewood named Thomas Atkinson.
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Now there's little information about this, but it seems as
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if he either didn't have valuable information or if they
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suspected Thomas as being involved in any way, the police
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didn't have enough evidence to tie him to Joyce's murder.
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A note was made about Thomas in the case file,
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and then pretty quickly Joyce's case went cold, even with
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a seven thousand dollars reward raised by Joyce's company. Unfortunately,
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police would make little to no progress in Joyce's case,
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and as other homicides and violent crimes occurred in the air,
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her case fell further in priority year after year until
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decades had passed. As it became more and more obvious
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that her case would never be solved, Joyce's family lost
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hope that justice would be served and attempted to move
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on with their lives. Richard did go on to enlist
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in the Air Force, transitioning to becoming a security guard
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in Burlington County. Upon his retirement from the military and
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moving to four Dix having two children, Ron worked in
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Hackensack for a time before opening his own practice in Wayne,
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getting married and becoming a father himself. And Mary Anne
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thought about her friend every year on Joyce's birthday, Joyce,
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who was so glamorous and full of a life that
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she never truly got to experience. Slowly, though, by two
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thousand and four, Joyce's case began to thaw when the
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Berkin County Coal Case Unit decided to take another one
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look at her file. According to the New York Daily News,
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there were several instances over the years where investigators had
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made notations in Joyce's file about tips they had gotten
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about Thomas Atkinson, the thirteen year old they had interviewed
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in nineteen seventy six, alleging that he had bragged to
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numerous people about being responsible for Joyce's murder. It took decades,
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but finally investigators thought there might be some truth to
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these tips, and they started looking into Thomas Atkinson's life
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and what he had been doing over the years. Unfortunately
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for Thomas, he hadn't exactly been walking the straight and narrow.
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At some point during his ten year shortly after the murder,
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he had been arrested and convicted for assault with intent
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to commit rape, and he had been sentenced to time
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in a New Jersey juvenile detention facility. Of his conviction,
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authorities predicted that his criminal activity, but he would continue,
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stating he has displayed a constant antisocial behavior with no
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indications of change. In fact, while incarcerated for assaults, he
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had allegedly been overheard bragging about Joyce's murder by a
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corrections officer, and he had provided one of the tips
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to police. In nineteen eighty one, The predictions about Thomas's
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future life of crime came to fruition when he started
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racking up various charges for burglaries and at least one assault,
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occurring in Manhattan He spent the next twenty years almost
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entirely behind bars for his various convictions, being paroled five times,
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but by two thousand and one, when he was close
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to forty years old, it seemed like Atkinson was done
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with a life of crime and was working towards bettering himself.
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He had a partner, Agail Connolly, who had stuck by
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his side through every sentence, keeping their home in the
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Bronx going while he served his time, as well as
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children that believed in his ability to do right by
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his family. Thomas started working as a cleaner for a
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catering company in Munachi, New Jersey, and things started looking
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up for him until police showed up at his job
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on August twenty first, two thousand and four, and arrested
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him for the murder of Joyce Pineck Saglin Bennet. While
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Joyce's family was surprised that an arrest had been made
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after thirty years, Atkinson's family and friends were almost more
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surprised at the charge. Thomas Aginson was very well liked
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in the Morris Height section of the Bronx where he lived,
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known in the community for being pleasant to be around
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and an all around happy guy. He was always quick
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to keep an eye on the children in his apartment
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complex when they were out playing, and was a regular
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fixture at fish fries and potlucks, thrilled to man the grill.
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His cousin Henry told The New York Times quote, I
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don't think he killed nobody. He was just thirteen. He
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would have told somebody about it. And his neighbor Marjorie
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Merrick said he was quote very friendly. He was Thomas.
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