The 1972 case of Jeannette DePalma has been covered a few times here; a good basic background on the case can be found in [this post] (https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4xqxcx/death_on_the_devils_teeth_the_mysterious_death_of/). In summary, a 16 year old girl vanished in August of 1972 after leaving her home in Springfield, New Jersey to visit friends. Her badly decomposed remains were found in a nearby quarry six weeks later. Almost immediately, rumors began to spread through the community that her death was somehow linked to the occult, but nothing concrete in terms of a suspect, a motive, or even a definitive cause of death ever emerged.
One of the most frustrating aspects of this case has been the absence of case files that could confirm or disprove aspects of the crime scene that supposedly pointed to occult involvement in DePalma's death. The case seems to have gone cold fairly quickly. It remained cold until 1997, when the magazine Weird New Jersey got a tip from a reader about a potentially forgotten 'ritual murder' in their state. Weird New Jersey ran the letter and, receiving confirmation from other readers that they too remembered rumors about such a murder, eventually pieced together enough realize that the DePalma case was the one they were looking for. In 2004 they spearheaded an attempt to get more information on the case, but were stymied when the Springfield police claimed that all files and evidence related to the case had been lost in flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
For almost 20 years, and despite the publication of [an entire book on the case] (https://store.weirdnj.com/products/death-on-the-devil-s-teeth-the-strange-murder-that-shocked-suburban-new-jersey), the question of what those files could have told us about DePalma's death remained unresolved. Until now. According to [a story published on WeirdNJ.com about a week ago] (https://weirdnj.com/weird-news/jeannette-depalma/), a fresh and more targeted FOIA request has finally winkled loose the files that the police claimed for decades didn't exist.
Among other things, the files include crime scene photos that lay to rest many of the occult allegations that shocked the public at the time. There were no pentagrams, no ritualistically mutilated animal carcasses, no crosses deliberate made of broken sticks and twigs. As Weird NJ points out, there's also not much evidence to support the Springfield police pet theory that DePalma simply od'd at a known te
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