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The 1969 murder of two college girls in the woods near milepost 31 on the Garden State Parkway grew cold. Rewards, artist renderings and tips from the public went nowhere, as the nation moved on. Man landed on the moon, the country’s bicentennial was celebrated, hostages were held in Iran, and gas prices soared.
A new term entered the popular vocabulary – serial killer – and one of the most infamous was named Ted Bundy.
Twenty years after the Parkway murders, he was awaiting a date with Florida’s electric chair. On Jan.
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