It was Thursday, September 12, 1985, when a customer of the Gas & Save Station found employee, Carmen J. DeLuca, dead inside a temporary office trailer located at 163 Bridge Street in East Windsor. The 23 year old Agawam, Massachusetts resident had been fatally shot in an apparent robbery and there were no witnesses to the
crime.Three hours later, a clerk of an AM/PM convenience store in Orange, Connecticut, was shot by a black male during a robbery. A bullet recovered from the injured clerk was matched ballistically to the bullet that killed Carmen DeLuca. The clerk in the Orange shooting had complied with the robber’s demands but was still shot by the unknown suspect. A description of the killer in the Orange robbery was established. He was a black male between 5’8″ tall to 6’0″ tall. He was skinny and around 18-25 years of age. The injured clerk in the Orange robbery also stated that the suspect was a passenger in a silver four-door Cadillac Brougham. The killer had headed south from the East Windsor murder. There is a possibility that the car could have been from Georgia. But the killers could have been anywhere, even Connecticut. Both robberies were near main roads, in the case of Deluca’s murder, it was only feet away from Interstate 91.
Anyone with information about the homicide of Carmen J. DeLuca should call the East Windsor Police Detective Division at 860-292-8240.
(Sources The Hartford Courant & Fox 61)
It’s a mystery that Collier County Sheriffs in Florida have been trying to find out for more than a year. On July 23rd, 2018, a deceased hiker was found in his yellow tent at the Noble’s Campground in the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades. Law Enforcement believe the man had been dead for several days and do not suspect foul play. He was described as a white male between the ages of 35 to 50 years old. When found he was five foot eight and weighed 83 pounds. He had a salt and pepper beard with bluish gray eyes. His teeth were in excellent shape and had been cared for. At the time of his death, he had not been in good health.
After a composite sketch was posted of him online, people remembered meeting him while hiking. He used the hiking names, “Denim” and Mostly Harmless”. He also used the name Ben Bilemy as he signed into several hostels where he stayed along the Appalachian Trail and Florida Trail in Virginia, Georgia and Florida. There were pictures taken of him as well as video, still no one knows his real name or where he was from. There is some belief that he may have worked in the IT industry and had connections to Louisiana and New York State.