Found Deceased NJ - Judy Cajuste, 14, Roselle, 11 January 2006

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3838955



Her mother, Magalie, remembers her only daughter, who was last seen 12 days ago. When she didn't come home that Wednesday night her mother reported her missing.

Magalie Cajuste, Victim's Mother: "Ten days I looked out my window, crying every day. Twenty-four hours I didn't eat."

The next day Essex County parks employees found the body of a young woman in a dumpster, but it took a week for authorities to notify Judy's mother, a delay that Essex County authorities have yet to explain.
It annoys me that in the article Judy is described as the "young woman". She was 14, just a girl!!!! Yet other missing people who are 19+ are referred to a "missing girls" or "missing teenagers". Why on earth is this girl a "young woman" ???????????


I did a search on:
Missing & Exploited Children
www.missingabducted.com
Google news
Google web
.... and there was nothing....
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This is just deplorable. This was a girl not a young woman. The police were totally at fault for not comparing all missing with the facts of the matter. They knew/or suspected but were not practicing due diligence.
 
Yes I agree ConcernedPerson. It "sounds" like they knew right away that she had died, but they didn't get around to telling mom for a week.

Surely, even a phone call would have been not too much trouble????

They now have her Judy's computer as they think she may have met a man on the internet... wonder how long it will take them to turn it on!!!!
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PonderingThings said:
Yes I agree ConcernedPerson. It "sounds" like they knew right away that she had died, but they didn't get around to telling mom for a week.

Surely, even a phone call would have been not too much trouble????

They now have her Judy's computer as they think she may have met a man on the internet... wonder how long it will take them to turn it on!!!!http://www.websleuths.com/forums/images/smilies/mad.gif
There is NO excuse for this sloppy police work. Shame on them!!!!:mad:

Thoughts and prayers for Judy, her mom and family. They must have gone through he!! just waiting to hear some word.
 
petra said:
There is NO excuse for this sloppy police work. Shame on them!!!!:mad:

Thoughts and prayers for Judy, her mom and family. They must have gone through he!! just waiting to hear some word.

Petra, this is a good opportunity to say that your heart is felt by many. Without some of you we could be posting on nothing. We come here with all the thoughts of trying to make a difference or a standard that sets us above the trivia. We come here with thoughts of families who are going through peril. We bang our heads against post after post that will portray a victim in the most desolute light. We come here because we care. And, I, never want to lose you.
 
ditto. We have to speak out and hope it is read by someone else who can feel a little bit of the outrage that happens to so many victims and their families. They need a voice when they are in the middle of their black hole of horror.

It is just amazing what humans do to each other--and not just the murderer.
But all of us and especially those in a position with direct contact with victims and families. Where have basic human compassion and feelings gone?

I hope I never turn a blind eye or become so numb to not feel anything towards another human being.
 
I would highly suggest everyone read the following local news article- nj.com

It will answer some of your questions.
 
It only let me read page 1 and then I would have to register but the one thing I noticed was police thought the victim was in her 20's. This happened in the South Carolina case.....police said 30-50 yr.old female when in reality she was 20.
 
slain high-school freshman who disappeared from her New Jersey home two weeks ago may have been strangled by a sicko she met online, according to reports.
Judy Cajuste, 14, of Roselle, N.J., vanished on Jan. 11. Her family reported her disappearance the following day.

On Jan. 13, parks workers in Newark discovered the body of a girl in a Dumpster at a maintenance garage in Weequahic Park, about 10 miles from Roselle.

The body was identified as Cajuste on Friday, and the medical examiner's office yesterday ruled she had died from strangulation. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/62170.htm
 
You don't have to register... it just asks for demographics... enter in something fake...
 
Thank you Audrey for posting that article. I does give a clearer picture of what happened.

It's two police departments. One finds the body and based on the estimates starts looking for a woman. Another takes a missing child report and based on the information starts looking for her.

In both instances data was fed into the computer. Unfortunately no match was possible as the estimate of the age was terribly wrong.

I've run into that before, while searching the Doe Network, or similiar sites and coming up with a possible match, but some of the data is off. Usually the authorities "guess" or "estimate" accurately... sadly not in this case.

At least someone was alert enough to think... ok, maybe the age is off and look into the possible match! It took a week... but for some families it takes years... or never...

The article also kinda explains why Judy was being referred to as the "young woman" not "girl" or "teenager". It seems that although she was only 14 the authorities have it in their heads that she's a "young woman" because they were looking for someone in their 20s... they continue THEIR error!

I understand it. It makes logical sense. I can see why/how it happened. It still doesn't remove that fact that because of an error the authorities took a week to tell her mom they had found her child. The only plus side is that the system worked..... slowly... painfully... but it ultimately worked....

Now I hope they concentrate really hard and find her killer!
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What a sad story - she sounds like a delightful girl.

I wonder if it was because she was wearing a gold band that they thought she was older?

If she was wearing that on her ring finger (doesn't say she was) then that would be it, for forensics, I would think. Early 20's.

Not 14.

I agree that I've seen things in the Doe files that look very very questionable - sometimes people go missing forever, even though they are located, because of something like this that seems like such a solid clue, is actually a mis-clue.
 
Plus I find that many young girls these days look much older than they really are.
 
This is were DNA /fingerprints on file can really help.

I understand the problem and I am glad the article made it clear. If a missing poster was in the system with description of ring it may have helped.

Remember the woman from Great Neck, NY---friend called in tip with her id from tattoo.....

hhhmmmm..maybe i should think of getting one!!!!
 
I know that this is OT but... I wonder if LE asks for help via the tattoo trade magazines when they need to make an ID... It would be nice if they could advertize- then maybe someone may recognize their artwork.
 
In the hours before she disappeared, Judy Cajuste appeared "anxious."

More than an hour after track practice ended Jan. 11, a coach said yesterday, the 14-year-old was lingering inside Roselle's Abraham Clark High School. That same night, another coach said, Judy asked two members of the boys' track team to escort her home, saying she did not want to walk alone on a cold, rainy evening.

But after the boys accompanied her to within three blocks of her home on Crescent Avenue, Judy bade them good night and doubled back toward the school, police said.

That was the last anyone from the school saw of her.

"We have information that she returned to the school. We don't know of her whereabouts after that," Roselle Police Chief Peter DeRose said yesterday.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-2/113816863433610.xml&coll=1
 
CBS recently aired a piece as well, that talked about 14-year-old Judy Cajuste who met a man in his 20s through MySpace.com and was later murdered. This is not an isolated case. Authorities are looking at multiple cases, and in a Newsweek interview Rupert Murdoch said, “We’ve also got a third of our work force monitoring the site to prevent inappropriate material from being posted.” Murdoch’s Newsweek statement suggests that MySpace is taking the situation pretty seriously.

Robert Young, who has in the past written guest columns about Rupert Murdoch and MySpace thinks that that these developments could cause major problems for MySpace and limit its money making potential.

http://gigaom.com/2006/02/06/sex-crimes-and-myspace/
 
She was so beautiful. I don't think they should be so quick to blame "myspace". Her killer has not been caught, meaning no one knows who the killer is or where she met him.
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