Author Of 'The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer' To Hold Book Signing

A retired New Jersey State Trooper will be a Holmdel bookstore Saturday to sign copies of his book about Jersey Shore serial killer Richard Biegenwald.

John O’Rourke will sign copies of his book “The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer” at noon Saturday at the Barnes & Noble, in The Commons at Holmdel, 2134 Route 35.

“Beachgoers usually dread riptides and rainy days, but from 1974 to 1983, a different fear gripped the New Jersey Shore: young women were disappearing. Their abductor was Richard Biegenwald, a man released for good behavior after serving seventeen years in prison for murder and spending time in a psychiatric facility,’’ according to a description of the book on the Barnes & Noble website.

Biegenwald was later convicted of five murders, the website said.

Those convictions include the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared from the Asbury Park boardwalk, and the slaying of 17-year-old Maria Ciallella from Brick and Deborah Osborne of Point Pleasant, according to The New York Daily News.

Biegenwald died in custody in 2008, according to NJ.com.

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