Deadly shooting in Manalapan, 1990
Asbury Park Press 30 Dec 1990
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Death sentence overturned for Kevin Jackson, 1990
Asbury Park Press 19 Apr 1990 The state Supreme Court Wednesday overturned a death sentence for a 27-year-old convicted murderer from Lakewood who killed a school teacher in 1985 by stabbing her 53 times. In returning the case to the lower courts for a possible retrial, the high court ruled 7-0 that defendant Kevin Jackson, though he confessed to the crime, had never acknowledged during earlier trials that he had "purposely or knowingly" caused the death of 51-year-old Meredith Levithan of Brick Township on Sept. 9, 1985. She was his neighbor. "This ruling may strike some as hyper-technical," says a 12-page opinion released Wednesday. "After all, there is no danger here that we are about to execute an innocent man. Defendant has never denied that he murdered the victim," the judges said. "The question, however, is not whether defendant is in any sense 'innocent,' but whether, under our law, he deserves the death penalty. His appeal is tha
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Press of Atlantic City 5 Mar 1990 "It's going to take more than vandals and the state bureaucracy to force Jane Gardner and Earl Hawk to move from the concrete block building that has been their home in the Pinelands for 25 years. The couple and a neighbor are the three remaining residents of Caruso Village, once a cluster of 10 homes, a hunting cabin and garage complex located in the Pinelands near the Bamber Lake section. The state Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, which had purchased the area from the Caruso family, ordered most of the remaining village residents to move at the end of October. But like their neighbor, the couple holds a long-term lease on their tin-roofed home, and the feisty pair have refused to move. They are not bothered that vandals recently set fire to two of the abandoned homes nearby. They also don't worry that anyone will harass them in their lonely enclave. Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested and charged with setting
Death of Herbert Bayard of Bamber, 1990
Press of Atlantic City, Dec 6 1990 HERBERT E. BAYARD, 68, of the Bamber Lake section of Lacey Township, died Wednesday at Community Medical Center in Toms River. Mr. Bayard was a self-employed carpenter in the Ocean County area for 37 years until his retirement in 1988. He was a member of the Lanoka Harbor Methodist Church and a past member of the Bamber Lake Fire Company. Born in Belford, he resided in Forked River before moving to Bamber Lake in 1972. Surviving are his wife, the former Alice Peake of Bamber Lake ; three sons, Lawrence, of Antioch, Calif., Gary, of Bayville, and Harry of Bamber Lake ; two daughters, Kerry Perkins of Cedar Run and Karen Duffy of Bamber Lake ; one brother, John Bayard of East Keansburg; three sisters, Alta Brown of Brick Town, Florence Wolchak of Middletown, and Dorothy Maggs of Wall Township; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.