NJ - Tara Rogers Alicea, 30, found dead in suitcase, Egg Harbor, 31 July 2013

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Records show woman found in suitcase in Egg Harbor Township had history with the law

Rogers-Alicea, who would have turned 31 on Friday, was arrested July 17 and brought to the Atlantic County jail on a warrant out of Gloucester County. The next day, she was transferred to the Camden County jail.

On Sept. 15, she failed to appear in Gloucester County on a heroin charge. A bench warrant was issued, records show.

Rogers-Alicea had three daughters, ages 12, 9 and 8.

See more: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_ad6f4234-78c3-11e3-8d2e-0019bb2963f4.html

 

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Broadway Ave & 9th Ave - Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234, USA ‎
Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/LoAY9

 

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Facebook: NJ.com

Authorities have identified the woman whose body was found in a suitcase Sunday as a Gloucester County woman and have determined she was strangled to death.

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https://www.facebook.com/NJ.com/posts/10151911220141234?stream_ref=10

 

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In murder of Tara Rogers-Alicea, Clayton family remembers selfless mother, victim of drug addiction

CLAYTON — Hour after hour, Sona Turner and some relatives sat in a car on an Atlantic City street, hoping to catch a glimpse of Tara.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county...bers_selfless_mother_victim_of_addiction.html

Image: Tara Rogers-Alicea, in a graduation photo (Courtesy of Sona Turner)

 

[tillietuesday]

Records show woman found in suitcase in Egg Harbor Township had history with the law


See more: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_ad6f4234-78c3-11e3-8d2e-0019bb2963f4.html

So she was definitely still alive and around July 17/18...was transferred to Camden County....she missed her hearing at Gloucester Co. on Sept. 15....and was then reported missing by mom to Clayton police Oct. 22 (who hadn't heard from Tara in around four months). Clayton cops notified A.C. police, since that's where she was last known to be living (no address known)...?
And then her body is discovered by an off-duty cop in January, dumped in EHT...
I'm hoping and praying the police are on this.....someone must know something...

 

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http://www.courierpostonline.com/ar...lain-Gloucester-County-woman-vanished-October

 

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McClain said it had been too cold earlier in the week to send out the dogs, but he expected them to be on the scene at some point Thursday. Later in the day, spokeswoman Haleigh Walz said she had been told the dogs had gone to the area.

Investigators also are looking at the possibility of the killing being linked to the unsolved 2006 homicides of four women found in the marsh off the Black Horse Pike in the township’s West Atlantic City section.

“It’s something we’re exploring,” McClain said. “We’d be foolish not to. But we’re exploring this possibility. At present time it remains just a possibility.”

Police dogs search area where woman's body was found in suitcase in Egg Harbor Township
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[Linda7NJ]

Police dogs search area where woman's body was found in suitcase in Egg Harbor Township

Read more: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_0709e5d2-7988-11e3-97f6-0019bb2963f4.html

I'm glad to read they're considering the possibility of a connection between those other four murdered women. I know that's immediately where my mind went.
And also that they scoured the area looking for others.

 

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Barbara Breidor, Molly Dilts, Kim Raffo and Tracy Roberts were found on November 20th, 2006, lined up in a drainage ditch behind the Golden Key Motel along the Black Horse Pike near Atlantic City.

Five Years Later, Murders Of Atlantic City Prostitutes Remain Unsolved
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...of-atlantic-city-prostitutes-remain-unsolved/

Distance from Broadway Ave & 9th Ave - Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234, USA ‎to 8030 Black Horse Pike, Pleasantville, NJ 08232, USA = 6.4 miles
Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/rZadj

 

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[TravelingBug]

Tara Rogers-Alicea, 30, of Monroeville, was reported missing in October by a family member, according to officials. She died of asphyxiation with strangulation, an autopsy found. The death has been ruled a homicide.

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I couldn't believe they thought it necessary to point out it was ruled a homicide. It'd take some real skill to kill yourself and wind up in a suitcase that wasn't somewhere it'd be found for quite some time.

 

[CherCher]

I couldn't believe they thought it necessary to point out it was ruled a homicide. It'd take some real skill to kill yourself and wind up in a suitcase that wasn't somewhere it'd be found for quite some time.

I know it seems really dumb for them to have to "point out" it was homicide. BUT if not, there are people who will jump on some bandwagon trying to theorize otherwise.

 

[trigger]

:rose: RIP Tara :rose:

 

[ATasteOfHoney]

I was just thinking how easy it would be for a sick perp to utilize his suitcase that he brought with him to the hotel and nonchalantly walk out with it in his hand. No one would suspect a thing. Perfect ruse.

So the suitcase serves as a big convenience for a perp; first as a disposal device and second as a perfect coverup that no one would think twice about seeing.

To those unfamiliar with the AC, NJ area (and the surrounding WHP, BHP routes).....suitcases coming and going out of hotels and into cars are seen all the time. This occurs in the fancier hotels on the Island (AC) as well as the seedier ones on Rt 30 and 40.

I wonder if any of the other missing women in that area were found around or near a suitcase? Any connection with that previously?

 

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http://www.nj.com/south-jersey-voic..._six_just_another_forgotten.html#incart_river

 

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lease: Please let there be some evidence left behind. I wonder if the suitcase was closed.

Thankful for the father and son finding her body. They were there in the woods hunting deer and coyotes.

 

[fran]

Funeral arrangments announced for Gloucester County murder victim Tara Rogers-Alicea

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county..._county_murder_victim_tara_rogers-alicea.html

 

[tillietuesday]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/n...ain_after_woman_s_body_found_in_suitcase.html

Sort of a fluff/human interest piece, but there's no real hard news this week so far. I am going to have a hard time letting this story go.

 

[Sigh Sister]

This woman's remains were found in a suitcase in the Passaic River in March of 2012. She is still unidentified.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165026&highlight=passaic+river

 

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BBM

January 14, 2014

Tara Alicea called her mother July 6 to wish her a happy birthday a day early.

A fight with heroin addiction had led her to drift, most recently around Atlantic County, and she wasn't sure she'd make it back to Gloucester County the next day to celebrate.

She didn't.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/n...dy_found_in_suitcase.html#oRyYmM0i8ZEVEgLB.99

The last status on Rogers-Alicea’s Facebook page was posted July 6, 2013. She posted a picture showing the nighttime Atlantic Cityscape.

http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county...orted_missing_in_october_authorities_say.html

I wonder where exactly Tara was when this photo was taken. (see below Facebook link for photo)

Facebook Photo: Tara Rogers-Alicea
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...38.80693.100001862476156&type=1&stream_ref=10