

The victim was subsequently identified as twenty-three year-old Tamara Tignor a known drug user and prostitute who had recently been living in Newark, New Jersey. in the Township of Bridgewater, New Jersey. on November 4, 1997, the body of an unidentified white female was discovered lying on a dirt cul-de-sac off of Gilbride Rd. Tamara Tignor - HomicideĪt approximately 5:00 p.m. The investigation reveals that Butler was apparently returning to Manville from Bound Brook when he was assaulted. the victim managed to travel to the town of Bound Brook. After leaving the bar sometime after midnight he walked a friend home and then returned to the Chester House where he rented a room on the second floor. in Manville earlier in the evening on February 25th shooting pool with several of the bar’s regular patrons.

The investigation revealed that the victim had been at Perhach’s Bar on Main St. The cause of death as reported by the Regional Medical Examiners Office was multiple blunt force trauma. On February 26, 1996, twenty-five year old Manville resident, Gary Butler was found dead in a retention pond on North Main St in Manville near the border of Bridgewater and the Raritan River. Three days later, at team of searchers found Sharon’s body discarded in a wooded area about a quarter-mile from her home. She climbed into the passenger side of a vehicle that had pulled up in front of her house, according to a child who had been playing in the front yard. As soon as she hung up the phone, she told her mother that she would be right back as she rushed outside to the street. Sharon appeared to be pleased to hear from the caller. On October 26, 1982, at approximately 5:30 p.m., 15-year old Sharon Thor was preparing to leave her Franklin Township home for her weekly ballet dance lesson which was three miles away in Bound Brook, when the home telephone rang.
