Robert Zarinsky

Robert “Bob” Zarinsky (September 2, 1940 November 28, 2008) was an American serial killer who killed three teenage girls in Monmouth County, New Jersey, between 1965 and 1969. Convicted of one of these murders and sentenced to life in prison, he was also a suspect in four other murders, including the 1958 murder of a police officer in Rahway, but he was later acquitted for that crime.

Criminal history and death Summary After a series of lesser crimes and numerous stays in psychiatric institutions: Linda Balabanow, 17, of Union Township, Union County, New Jersey Doreen Carlucci, 14, and Joanne Delardo, 15, of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey Ann Logan, 19, of Elizabeth, New Jersey

Zarinsky repeatedly boasted that he could solve up to ten homicides, hoping to parlay the information into a more-lenient prison sentence.

Calandriello murder Rosemary Calandriello was a 17-year-old girl from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, who disappeared on August 25, 1969. Her body was never found, but Zarinsky was convicted in 1975 of murdering her. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for this crime, upheld on appeal. He was the first person in New Jersey ever to be convicted of murder without the victim's body having been found, a conviction upheld on appeal. In 1988, Zarinsky claimed that he had accidentally killed Calandriello and buried her body in northwest New Jersey. He later claimed that he had thrown her body into the Atlantic Ocean. Schiffer left a fingerprint at the scene of the Miller Pontiac burglary, but it was not until 1999 that the fingerprint was matched to him. He had never been fingerprinted and therefore there was no record of his fingerprints. Schiffer pleaded guilty to burglary and served three years in prison. Durrua went missing on the evening of November 4, 1968, and her body was found the next morning in a field in Middletown, New Jersey.

Klinsky murder On February 17, 2016, the New Jersey State Police Major Crime Unit and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office announced that newly examined DNA evidence linked the 1965 death of Mary Agnes Klinsky to Zarinsky. Klinsky was raped and beaten to death. Her naked body was found near Telegraph Hill Park in Holmdel, New Jersey on September 16, 1965.

Zarinsky's death On November 28, 2008, before he could stand trial for the Durrua murder, Zarinsky died at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey, aged 68, of pulmonary fibrosis.