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 a Jersey Shore serial killer.

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 two 17-year-old girls from Brick and Point Pleasant, according to The New York Daily News.

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

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