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Denise's Place 2009
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 Baby Mark born 2004...named after his mother's beloved brother. |
Information is being sought in the fire related
1992 death of a Laurel Lake man:
Mark Anthony Sherman.
9/17/69 - 4/6/92
Mark had went out for pizza then had a fight with a local drunk he had fought a few days earlier...That was around 10 PM April 4... Millville Fire Dept.responded to a fire in an abandoned Rt.47 trucking co. 5 AM on 4-5-92. The fire was confined to a smaller than 8x10 old pump house inside the building...fire dept doused the tiny burn area real good- Mark's horribly burned body was found 4-6-92 after noon by 'trash pickers' (from LAUREL LAKE) sifting through the fire scene. How could trained firefighters have not seen or smelled a burnt human in that tiny burn area !? Were the police called to and sent with the Millville Fire Dept.to that obvious arson fire scene? The fire had been so hot that Mark's skull exploded and his feet burnt off! Police think Mark walked very drunk from a local low class bar almost a mile to the truck building... crawl inside a pump house... inside a pitch black building and wedge himself beween the well pipes an the cinder block wall...then set himself on fire after falling asleep with a cigarette? The M.E. final report stated cause of death was due to him falling asleep with a cigarette....inside a pumphouse that had been locked from the OUTSIDE!
Mark Anthony Sherman.
9/17/69 - 4/6/92
Mark had went out for pizza then had a fight with a local drunk he had fought a few days earlier...That was around 10 PM April 4... Millville Fire Dept.responded to a fire in an abandoned Rt.47 trucking co. 5 AM on 4-5-92. The fire was confined to a smaller than 8x10 old pump house inside the building...fire dept doused the tiny burn area real good- Mark's horribly burned body was found 4-6-92 after noon by 'trash pickers' (from LAUREL LAKE) sifting through the fire scene. How could trained firefighters have not seen or smelled a burnt human in that tiny burn area !? Were the police called to and sent with the Millville Fire Dept.to that obvious arson fire scene? The fire had been so hot that Mark's skull exploded and his feet burnt off! Police think Mark walked very drunk from a local low class bar almost a mile to the truck building... crawl inside a pump house... inside a pitch black building and wedge himself beween the well pipes an the cinder block wall...then set himself on fire after falling asleep with a cigarette? The M.E. final report stated cause of death was due to him falling asleep with a cigarette....inside a pumphouse that had been locked from the OUTSIDE!
CASE CLOSED!
Once the M.E.MAPOW ruled, all law enforcment took it as gospel and walked away. The
autopsy never mentioned Mark's broken ribs; toxocology was NEGATIVE for ANY drugs...The same M.E. was discussed in
the NY TIMES ect. a year later about his bungled autopsies- The local press even wrongly stated Mark was a 'homeless'
drug addict! Mark's Mom talked to people at the bar from that night he alledgedly had been at that knew her son well and
they told her he had not been there; the one fella whom told cops Mark had been there was shown a picture of another man and
told Mark's mom after she told him it was her son Mark to test his truthfulness that . 'yep,that's the guy
whom was here....' but it was not MARK! The Millville fire dept., prosecutors office and Millville PD treated the
family terrible! No one gave her reports! We were told that ALL the files on Mark's case were stolen from a storage building
at the Millville Airport when in 2000 we got an Atlantic City Press reporter willing to investigate under the freedom of information
act! Family and friends seek to have Mark's case
re-investigated by an OUTSIDE Cumberland County NJ forensic agency or even a good investigative news agency.
re-investigated by an OUTSIDE Cumberland County NJ forensic agency or even a good investigative news agency.
Even
after all these years, and the local MPD closing the case over a decade ago...if you know anything
please do the right thing and report it;We will all be held accountable to God for what we do or do
not do in this life.EVEN WRITE AN ANNONYMOUS LETTER WITH YOUR INFO TO THE PROSECUTOR OR ALL THE LOCAL NEWS AGENCIES.
Here are the rumors told for years about what happened: "Laurel Lake area low life trashy drug users (many still here) killed Mark (after he was falsely accused of a drug deal gone bad) by getting him very drunk,beating him unconscious, putting him in the well pump, pouring wine (MAD DOG 20-20) all over his unconscious body then setting him on fire via matches and cigarettes."Think a case cannot be bungled by multiple agencies? Look at the Philly case this year where a 10 day old alledgedly died in a house fire but was found to be alive after 6 years after she had been declared dead in a accidental fire by fire officials and the M.E.- Contact Mark's beloved Mom if you are just as suspicious about this case:
June Lee Sherman Orange City ,Florida
email: shermdog21@webtv.net
or contact The NJSP South Intelligence Unit
1-856-614-2580
To Millville PD and Fire Co. : Links
to learn how to investigate:
Article from the internet below describes this area's lifestyle:
"New Jersey: When Dad's a dealer"
MILLVILLE, New Jersey -- Gilbert Stites
never wore jeans.
He preferred Armani suits and patent leather shoes. He drove $40,000 cars and gambled at Atlantic City casinos. He craved money and power, while living up to his nickname, "The Boss," given to him by South New Jersey drug dealers.
His seemingly glamorous life in the mid-1980s veiled a man who sold drugs, abused his children and killed a rival drug dealer, according to Stites' stepdaughter, Cheryl Veach. Veach and her half-sister, Melissa Wolf, haven't gone public with the truth behind one of Cumberland County's most infamous crimes until now.
The women told their story on "Montel" .
"I need to get rid of it, get it out," Veach said in a home she shares with her boyfriend, Butch Parent, on West Buckshutem Road. "We've always been scared to talk about it because of our father. We have to get it through our heads he's dead and ain't gonna hurt us now." Wolf wants to set the record straight for her family's sake. "The most important thing is my kids -- I don't want to be gone and them not know the whole truth," said Wolf, a 36-year-old married mother of two from Laurel Lake.
Veach was a year old when she became Stites' stepdaughter, after he married her mother, Geraldine. Together they raised three daughters, including Wolf, and two sons, with a plan -- a plan to live richly by selling drugs, sometimes with help from the children. Although Veach's other siblings do not want the half-sisters to share their stories, Veach said, "I firmly believe that was the case."
An unusual childhood Gilbert worked as a self-employed painter while Geraldine depended on welfare for income early in the marriage, Veach said.
Testing drugs for dad By 1983, Veach had an ex-husband, a second daughter and a drug addiction. "He wanted my ex-husband to first help do the business with him, and that's what we did," she said. "Dad was taking me to Philly to try stuff out."
Stites ordered his stepdaughter to test the purity of Methamphetamine, Marijuana, Heroin and Cocaine in big cities such as New York. Veach said she never saw her father use drugs; he often wore gloves when handling them because he didn't want to get high.
The prevalence of drugs would hook Wolf as well.
Veach helped her father run drugs between Millville and Bridgeton, using some of the money for bills and some for limousine rides to Atlantic City.
"You get caught up in it," Veach said. "There was no saying no. That was our lifestyle. You did what Dad said to do, point blank." Shots ring out -
Gilbert Stites shot 36-year-old Gregory Galiyano twice in the chest at point-blank range around 4 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1985.
Veach, 22 at the time, was sleeping on the living room floor at 18 Court Blvd. in Millville with her ex-husband and her children after a party for a family friend when the shots rang out. Hours earlier, Veach said she heard her mother and stepfather talking in the basement about posting bail to release Galiyano from Cumberland County Jail. Veach added there were no plans to kill Galiyano. She said her stepfather wanted just to talk to him.
But Stites and Galiyano were selling drugs in the same cities, and Galiyano owed Stites close to $25,000. Stites also liked to carry guns -- often three at a time. He reached across a kitchen table to shoot Galiyano twice. "I said, 'Who is that, Dad? Oh my God!' And he said it was Greg. Then he said, 'Now look what the son of a b---- made me do,'" Veach said.
Stites shot Galiyano nine more times in the chest and head in a fit of anger.
Worried other family members would be shot, Veach calmed Stites down. Then she took .25- and .38-caliber pistols from Stites' hands, wiped off the prints and shoved the guns in a paper bag.
Knowing that Veach's ex-husband and her brother were going fishing the next morning, Stites ordered them to toss the guns in the Delaware Bay.
Veach's ex-husband also wrapped Galiyano's body in a blue tarpaulin and stuck his head and limbs through tires so that his corpse would sink to the bottom of Leamings Mill Pond.
Protecting her father Veach, her ex-husband, children and Wolf fled the state in late 1985 for four months after lying to a grand jury in an effort to protect Stites, who soon became the main suspect in Galiyano's death.
Investigators discovered the lie when Wolf told her boyfriend, who was equipped with a wire, about the murder. Meanwhile, a drug bust closed Stites' operation. Wolf and Veach's family made it to Florida. They returned to Millville when Stites was arrested in the drug bust and police convinced him to tell the truth about the murder, even though he claimed it was done in self-defense.
Stites also told Veach to admit the truth because neither daughter saw the initial shooting. He had hoped their testimony would not conflict with his self-defense claim. But Stites was convicted in 1986 of murdering Galiyano and planning a second killing. He was sentenced to 27 years in Trenton State Prison, but died in 1989 . The sisters did not receive jail time for perjury, but Veach served eight months in jail for taking orders from her father to have her ex-husband kill Wolf's boyfriend in Kentucky. The plan failed after Veach testified against her father and ex-husband, who was convicted on conspiracy charges.
Today the sisters are coming to grips with their pasts.
"People still talk. I hear it all the time," said Veach, who suffered two failed marriages and still sees a therapist. "I did what I had to do because of the circumstances." "This will help us a lot," Wolf said about the show. "We work and are productive community people, but still live that life every day of our lives. I want a happy, healthy ending in life."
He preferred Armani suits and patent leather shoes. He drove $40,000 cars and gambled at Atlantic City casinos. He craved money and power, while living up to his nickname, "The Boss," given to him by South New Jersey drug dealers.
His seemingly glamorous life in the mid-1980s veiled a man who sold drugs, abused his children and killed a rival drug dealer, according to Stites' stepdaughter, Cheryl Veach. Veach and her half-sister, Melissa Wolf, haven't gone public with the truth behind one of Cumberland County's most infamous crimes until now.
The women told their story on "Montel" .
"I need to get rid of it, get it out," Veach said in a home she shares with her boyfriend, Butch Parent, on West Buckshutem Road. "We've always been scared to talk about it because of our father. We have to get it through our heads he's dead and ain't gonna hurt us now." Wolf wants to set the record straight for her family's sake. "The most important thing is my kids -- I don't want to be gone and them not know the whole truth," said Wolf, a 36-year-old married mother of two from Laurel Lake.
Veach was a year old when she became Stites' stepdaughter, after he married her mother, Geraldine. Together they raised three daughters, including Wolf, and two sons, with a plan -- a plan to live richly by selling drugs, sometimes with help from the children. Although Veach's other siblings do not want the half-sisters to share their stories, Veach said, "I firmly believe that was the case."
An unusual childhood Gilbert worked as a self-employed painter while Geraldine depended on welfare for income early in the marriage, Veach said.
Testing drugs for dad By 1983, Veach had an ex-husband, a second daughter and a drug addiction. "He wanted my ex-husband to first help do the business with him, and that's what we did," she said. "Dad was taking me to Philly to try stuff out."
Stites ordered his stepdaughter to test the purity of Methamphetamine, Marijuana, Heroin and Cocaine in big cities such as New York. Veach said she never saw her father use drugs; he often wore gloves when handling them because he didn't want to get high.
The prevalence of drugs would hook Wolf as well.
Veach helped her father run drugs between Millville and Bridgeton, using some of the money for bills and some for limousine rides to Atlantic City.
"You get caught up in it," Veach said. "There was no saying no. That was our lifestyle. You did what Dad said to do, point blank." Shots ring out -
Gilbert Stites shot 36-year-old Gregory Galiyano twice in the chest at point-blank range around 4 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1985.
Veach, 22 at the time, was sleeping on the living room floor at 18 Court Blvd. in Millville with her ex-husband and her children after a party for a family friend when the shots rang out. Hours earlier, Veach said she heard her mother and stepfather talking in the basement about posting bail to release Galiyano from Cumberland County Jail. Veach added there were no plans to kill Galiyano. She said her stepfather wanted just to talk to him.
But Stites and Galiyano were selling drugs in the same cities, and Galiyano owed Stites close to $25,000. Stites also liked to carry guns -- often three at a time. He reached across a kitchen table to shoot Galiyano twice. "I said, 'Who is that, Dad? Oh my God!' And he said it was Greg. Then he said, 'Now look what the son of a b---- made me do,'" Veach said.
Stites shot Galiyano nine more times in the chest and head in a fit of anger.
Worried other family members would be shot, Veach calmed Stites down. Then she took .25- and .38-caliber pistols from Stites' hands, wiped off the prints and shoved the guns in a paper bag.
Knowing that Veach's ex-husband and her brother were going fishing the next morning, Stites ordered them to toss the guns in the Delaware Bay.
Veach's ex-husband also wrapped Galiyano's body in a blue tarpaulin and stuck his head and limbs through tires so that his corpse would sink to the bottom of Leamings Mill Pond.
Protecting her father Veach, her ex-husband, children and Wolf fled the state in late 1985 for four months after lying to a grand jury in an effort to protect Stites, who soon became the main suspect in Galiyano's death.
Investigators discovered the lie when Wolf told her boyfriend, who was equipped with a wire, about the murder. Meanwhile, a drug bust closed Stites' operation. Wolf and Veach's family made it to Florida. They returned to Millville when Stites was arrested in the drug bust and police convinced him to tell the truth about the murder, even though he claimed it was done in self-defense.
Stites also told Veach to admit the truth because neither daughter saw the initial shooting. He had hoped their testimony would not conflict with his self-defense claim. But Stites was convicted in 1986 of murdering Galiyano and planning a second killing. He was sentenced to 27 years in Trenton State Prison, but died in 1989 . The sisters did not receive jail time for perjury, but Veach served eight months in jail for taking orders from her father to have her ex-husband kill Wolf's boyfriend in Kentucky. The plan failed after Veach testified against her father and ex-husband, who was convicted on conspiracy charges.
Today the sisters are coming to grips with their pasts.
"People still talk. I hear it all the time," said Veach, who suffered two failed marriages and still sees a therapist. "I did what I had to do because of the circumstances." "This will help us a lot," Wolf said about the show. "We work and are productive community people, but still live that life every day of our lives. I want a happy, healthy ending in life."
That family name still to this day "creeps"
up from time to time...as in Gilbert E. Stites
(born in 1976) and along with a dozen other local crime families who for generations are in and out of prison,steal,deal dope,et.
Such is life in rural Cumberland County,NJ.
It is so evil and frightening.
It could happen to any of us at anytime.
Justice is only for the politically connected, famous & wealthy in the USA.
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