$5K Offered For Tips In 40-Year-Old Case Of Woman Found Brutally Murdered In Tinton Falls

MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ — Officials still seek a viable suspect in the brutal murder of a missing 23-year-old woman whose body was found at a Monmouth County construction site 40 years ago.

The county Crime Stoppers organization is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information that could help solve this crime.

A construction worker found Karissa Davis, of Union County, brutally murdered on Sept. 23, 1983 in Tinton Falls, according to Monmouth County Crime Stoppers and local newspaper records.

She had been reported missing from the Scotch Plains/Plainfield area, the organization said.

Davis had been last seen leaving a Plainfield bar Sept. 17, where she had "auditioned for a part-time job playing piano," central Jersey's Courier-News reported at the time. Friends said she was legally blind and did not drive a car, and may have been walking more than a mile to a restaurant in Scotch Plains, the reports said.

The 23-year-old had many stab wounds and other injuries, the associate medical examiner told the Courier-News at the time.

Monmouth County Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information that leads to the identification, arrest, and prosecution of a suspect in Davis' murder.

All tipsters remain anonymous. Visit the Monmouth County Crime Stoppers website for more information, or call 1-800-671-4400.