Richard Biegenwald, the serial killer known as the "Thrill Killer", died on Monday. He was convicted of killing five people, including three young women.
A Corrections Department spokeswoman said that Biegenwald, 67, died at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, which treats inmates of New Jersey State Prison, where he was serving his sentence.
The spokeswoman said that Mr. Biegenwald had been hospitalized for some time. The cause of death was not determined on Monday, she said.
Biegenwald was 18 when he killed Stephen Sladowski, a Bayonne store owner who was also an assistant city prosecutor, in a robbery in 1958.
Biegenwald was paroled in 1975 and spent the next several years in and out of jail for parole violations. He was convicted of killing three teenage girls and a drug dealer, William Ward, in 1981 and 1982.
The bodies of Maria Caillella and Deborah Osborne were found dismembered and buried together in a shallow grave in the yard of Biegenwald’s mother’s home on Staten Island.
He was sentenced to death twice for the killing of Anna Olesiewicz, whom he lured from the Asbury Park Boardwalk with the promise of marijuana.
The State Supreme Court overturned the sentence both times.
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