The Shooting of Maria Marshall

Greed, Corruption and Murder in New Jersey

The 1980s were a decade of wealth and excess and Toms River, New Jersey personified all of that in its forty or so miles of land. The Ocean County Mall, opened in 1976, became Toms River’s most popular recreational spot, where shopping was king. Once considered a Memorial Day through Labor Day vacation spot for New Yorkers, Philadelphians and those living in northern Jersey (greatly helped thanks to the Garden State Parkway), Toms River became somewhere the executives didn’t just get away to but chose to…