By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer
Friday, September 13, 1991
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A 24-year-old Irvington woman who had been stabbed several times in the chest and neck was found dead in a car in North Bergen on Wednesday, authorities said.
Guy Gregory, assistant Hudson County prosecutor, said police are looking for a man who was with Maria Arroya of 44 Grace St. at the time she was killed.
“We have a suspect in mind, but he’s not in custody, and I’m not going to be able to give you his name,” Gregory said. “I don’t really want to talk about the details of the killing because of that.”
North Bergen Police Officer Bernadette Paul found Arroya in the front seat of the 1980 Datsun underneath a railroad trestle on 83rd Street shortly before 9 p.m., North Bergen police Lt. Timothy Kelly said.
“We got a call to go to 83rd Street, east of Westside Avenue, on a possible motor-vehicle accident,” Kelly said.
A man standing next to the car told Paul another man killed Arroya, then fled east on 83rd Street, Kelly said. North Bergen police, assisted by the Bergen County Police Department’s Canine Unit, searched the area but did not find the alleged assailant, he said.
Kelly referred all further questions to the Homicide Squad of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Gregory declined further comment, refusing to say whether investigators knew the relationship between the victim and the two men.
Irvington Police Chief Bernard DeLucia said a check of township police records did not turn up any information concerning Arroya or contact between her and the department.
Keywords: NORTH BERGEN; MURDER; PROBE
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