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Horrific murder in Brick, 1981 (Richard Biegenwald)

Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 2 1983 Officials yesterday identified the dismembered body of one of the two teenage girls found Tuesday in a shallow grave at a Staten Island home, and they said they would seek a murder indictment against the son of the woman who lived there. Monmouth County Prosecutor Alexander Lehrer identified the girl as Maria Ciallella, of Brick Township, Ocean County , who was 17 when she disappeared on Halloween night in 1981. Lehrer said he would seek a murder indictment in the case against Richard Biegenwald, who also is being held in the August slaying of Anna Olesiewicz, 18, of Camden. Lehrer said at a news conference here yesterday that Miss Ciallella had been shot twice in the head before being dismembered and buried in three green plastic trash bags in the yard of the home belonging to Biegenwald's mother, Sally Biegenwald. "There is no motive in this senseless killing, in my opinion," Lehrer said at the news conference, "other than the o