57 y.o.Raymond Alves,1970's serial rapist who failed to register as sex offender after being freed from NJ prison,& is SUSPECTED of being 1960's-'70's serial KILLER of 6-12 gals,is recaptured,prosecutors may try to civilly commit him to loony bin
Joe1orbit
About a week or so ago, I posted the news that a 1970's serial rapist named
Raymond Alves had been paroled from prison, but FAILED to register as a sex
offender as he was required to do, and could not be found. Prosecutors very
quickly began declaring that Raymond was a PRIME suspect in the unsolved SERIAL
killings of young gals in New Jersey, that had occured in the 1970's. NOW, the
media says that Raymond at some point CONFESSED to serially killing a DOZEN or
so gals.
The BAD news is that after enjoying a few weeks of freedom as a fugitive, the
FBI and other police HAVE managed to track down and re-arrested Raymond last
night, at a train station in New Jersey. So, he really DIDN'T get very far,
from where he was released. If I were him, I probably would have IMMEDIATELY
tried to put at LEAST 1000 miles of distance between myself and where I was
released from, and STAYED far away from the release state.
Raymond is charged with "unlawful flight", and failing to register as a sex
offender. The State will PROBABLY, and OUTRAGEOUSLY, seek to INVOLUNTARILY
COMMIT 57 year old Raymond to a LOONY BIN, for being a "sexually violent
predator". That is the ZENITH of perverse hypocrisy! You CHOSE, as a society,
to SEEK to inflict PUNITIVE jail time upon this VICTIM, you SUCCEEDED in
getting him CONDEMNED to spend 2 DECADES in prison, and only NOW, when your
ABILITY to keep him locked up in PRISON may no longer exist, you seek to get
him thrown into a loony bin, a place that he SHOULD have been sent to from the
VERY BEGINNING, INSTEAD of prison, if indeed he was mentally ill. Of course
these loony bins are STRUCTURED to be PUNITIVELY punishing, not
treatment-oriented. But still, the GALL of you evil creatures, to IMPOSE 20
years of punitive punishment that involve REJECTING Raymond's mental illness,
and then turning around 20+ years later and EMBRACING the notion of his mental
illness, for the sole purpose of KEEPING him locked up, is mindboggling, in
it's OVERT malice.
It does NOT sound as though prosecutors have the EVIDENCE needed, to charge
Raymond with ANY of the 6-12 gal murders they SAY they suspect him of
committing.
You can view a NICE color facial photo of Raymond, who certainly has strongly
ethnic facial features, at least from my perspective, over at:
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/22/njrelease0322_01.html
I guess it's better just to say that his face has "distinctive character" in
it;s appearance.
Naturally I can't help but wonder whether or not Raymond IS a genuine serial
killer. We KNOW that gals did get slaughtered in NJ in the later 1960's &
1970's, a whole BUNCH of unsolved murders occured. Would be a real SHAME for
Raymond NEVER to receive credit for being a serial killer, if in fact he was
one.
Stay Strong, Raymond!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire:
Fugitive Rapist Caught in N.J.
By WAYNE PARRY
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A rapist allowed to leave prison without prosecutors
knowledge was captured Tuesday night following a nationwide search for the man
who claimed to have raped and killed more than a dozen women.
Raymond Alves was arrested at 7:40 p.m. at the Annandale train station by
police and the FBI after he got off a train from Newark, said Bergen County
Prosecutor William Schmidt.
``We're absolutely thrilled,'' Schmidt said. ``We've been working around the
clock on this.''
Alves was charged by federal authorities with unlawful flight to avoid
prosecution, and by Bergen County authorities with failure to register as a
convicted sex offender under Megan's Law.
Before he was released from prison in New Jersey, Alves gave authorities a fake
Massachusetts address where he said he would be living.
Department of Corrections Commissioner Jack Terhune has acknowledged that state
corrections employees violated numerous procedures before releasing the
57-year-old Alves.
Because of those violations, prosecutors weren't aware that Alves was being let
go and never got a chance to seek to have him civilly committed as a sexually
violent predator.
In 1998, Gov. Christie Whitman called for a law making it easier to confine sex
offenders who had served their terms but were still considered dangerous. The
Legislature then passed the Sexually Violent Predator Act.
Unlike the older law, which required a person to suffer from a mental illness,
the new law can be used to confine a person with a mental abnormality or
personality disorder that predisposes a person to commit acts of sexual
violence.
Critics say the new law makes it easier to confine sex offenders who have
served their full sentences, violating the Constitution's ban on double
jeopardy.
Alves, who became a federal fugitive after prosecutors discovered he was
released, served less than half of a 47-year sentence for the 1976 rape of one
teen and the assault of another.
He had claimed to have raped and killed more than a dozen women.
AP-NY-03-22-00
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The following appears courtesy of the 3/22/00 online edition of The Bergen
Record newspaper:
Alves caught at N.J. train station
Wednesday, March 22, 2000
By ELISE YOUNG and SEAMUS McGRAW
Staff Writers
A nationwide manhunt for Raymond Alves ended with the rapist's arrest Tuesday
night, moments after he stepped off a commuter train in rural Hunterdon County,
authorities said.
He was taken into custody at a phone booth in Annandale by Clinton Township
police and an FBI agent after a 40-mile ride aboard an NJ Transit train that
left Penn Station in Newark, said Bergen County Prosecutor William H. Schmidt.
From the moment Alves boarded, Schmidt said, he was being shadowed by
detectives from the Prosecutor's Office.
"We have information that was developed that he would be taking that train,"
Schmidt said late Tuesday. "The question was what time, because there are
several that run that line. . . . When he was off the train, he was observed at
a telephone booth."
Police and the FBI agent confronted Alves at 7:40 p.m.
"He was not armed," Schmidt said. "There was no resistance."
There was no indication that Alves -- who last week was the subject of a
segment of the television show "America's Most Wanted" -- was recognized by
other passengers.
Penny Bassett Hackett, a spokeswoman for NJ Transit, said the agency "had some
level of information" that Alves was aboard the Raritan Valley line.
At 10 p.m., Alves was being held at the Clinton Township police headquarters,
Schmidt said. Police there referred all questions to the FBI in Newark.
FBI Special Agent Sandra Carroll said only that the FBI and the Prosecutor's
Office were "still sorting out the details" of the arrest.
Schmidt declined to say for how long detectives had been trailing Alves, 57, a
onetime house painter from Lodi who was released from Southern State Prison in
Cumberland County on March 9. He had served 23 years of a 47-year sentence for
raping a 16-year-old girl in Fair Lawn and pushing another teenage girl off a
bridge in Clifton. Both crimes took place in 1976.
Law enforcement officials also say Alves remains a suspect in the unsolved
slayings of six young women in Bergen and Passaic counties between 1966 and
1976.
His release two weeks ago was an unwelcome surprise for North Jersey
prosecutors, who were not aware he once again was a free man. They were
horrified to learn he had submitted a false address upon his release and had
failed to register as a sex offender.
Had prosecutors known Alves was about to leave prison, Schmidt has said, they
would have sought to have him committed as a violent sex predator.
On Tuesday night, Alves was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution
and violation of the Megan's Law statute for sex offenders, Schmidt said.
Asked whether Alves was to be housed in the Bergen County Jail while awaiting
arraignment in Hackensack this morning, Schmidt said he wasn't sure.
"Whether it's here or a federal facility -- that hasn't been determined yet,"
Schmidt said.
Schmidt would not speculate on why Alves was traveling to the Annandale section
of Clinton Township, a farming community at the crossroads of Route 78 and
Route 22, about three miles northwest of Round Valley Reservoir.
Bergen authorities previously said Alves was last spotted March 10, after
spending a night at the Capri Inn on Route 46 in Little Ferry.
Alves was set free from the South Jersey prison after two psychologists deemed
him unlikely to commit another crime. But in the two weeks since, state
corrections officials have identified a number of missteps leading to Alves'
release.
The two psychologists who said Alves did not pose a threat to society have been
fired. And Corrections Commissioner Jack Terhune, the former Bergen County
sheriff, has called Alves' release "a painful and embarrassing incident."
On Tuesday night, Corrections spokesman Chris Carden said authorities have
filed a request with the state attorney general's office to commit Alves to a
residential treatment facility.
Governor Whitman, meanwhile, called the arrest "a credit to the tireless
efforts of New Jersey and federal law-enforcement professionals."
"Our law is crystal-clear: All Megan's Law offenders are required to register
with local authorities after their release from prison, even if their sentences
are completed," she said. "Alves failed to comply with our laws, and his quick
apprehension is a reflection of how seriously we view these requirements."
This article contains material from The Associated Press.
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The following appears courtesy of the 3/21/00 online edition of The Bergen
Record newspaper:
Genealogical journey takes a haunting detour
Tuesday, March 21, 2000
By SEAMUS McGRAW
Staff Writer
POTTSTOWN, Pa. -- Rose Vrabel hadn't expected to reopen old wounds when she sat
down at the computer last month in her tiny apartment at the edge of this dying
Pennsylvania milltown. All she wanted to do was compile a genealogy, she said.
But sometimes the dead raise troubling questions.
More than 30 years after the lifeless body of Vrabel's 18-year-old cousin,
Irene Blasi, was found floating in the Saddle River, Vrabel now finds herself
studying fading photographs of the slain teenager.
But she also scans the pictures of Raymond Alves, a convicted rapist who
authorities say just might be Blasi's killer.
She asks herself: Could it be him?
Vrabel remembers playing with Blasi as an infant, on the floor of the family's
farm in northeastern Pennsylvania. She remembers the pain the little girl felt
when her mother and father broke up, and how, as a teenager, she became a
little rootless and "started to run with a tough crowd."
Most of all, she recalls news reports that day in April 1969 when the body was
found.
"I didn't expect to have to think about all of this," she said. "I just wanted
to do a genealogy."
It was just an accident of fate that Vrabel, busy compiling the family history,
contacted The Record seeking information about Blasi's death two weeks ago.
Vrabel said she had no idea that Alves only days earlier had been released from
prison, or that prosecutors from Bergen County -- anxious to have him declared
a sexual predator and locked up forever -- had launched a nationwide manhunt.
She also didn't know that the echoes of Blasi's killing were resounding in New
Jersey.
Bergen County prosecutors had long suspected, but never proved, that Alves
might have played a role in the still-unsolved murders of six young women in
North Jersey three decades ago.
Blasi was one of the victims. Authorities say she was sexually assaulted,
strangled, and dumped in the river either April 7 or 8, 1969.
"I remember seeing my cousin's face on television," Vrabel said.
It had been a couple of years since she had last seen Blasi. The youngster she
knew had changed, matured, she said.
"At first, I didn't know who it was. It was just a girl," Vrabel said. "But
then my mother called me."
There was a sense of horror in the family, of course. But it was hushed.
"In those days, there were a lot of things you didn't talk about," she said.
"It wasn't until recently that I put it together that it was a sexual thing."
Even Blasi's uncle by marriage -- a detective in Cresskill -- had little to say
about the slaying or the subsequent investigation, Vrabel said. As the probe
dragged on, the whispers faded, she said.
"I used to baby-sit for her when she was just tiny," Vrabel said, flicking an
ash from her long brown cigarette with a painted fingernail. "She had it hard.
Irene was sort of neglected.
"The last time my grandmother saw the child, Irene had walked all the way up to
Cresskill from Paramus. They were living in Paramus then, and I remember my
grandmother saying that it was cold, and Irene had no buttons on her coat. So
she sewed buttons on for her."
When Irene was 12, her mother and father separated, Vrabel said.
Irene stayed with her mother, and for the rest of her brief life, the
splintered family drifted from place to place. "They were in Paterson for a
while, then Bogota," Vrabel said. "They moved around a lot."
Thinking back, Vrabel wonders whether Blasi may have sought comfort outside her
troubled family.
"We had lost touch with them," she said. "But the talk in the family back then
was that Irene was running with a tough crowd out of Paterson. She was hanging
with bikers."
Vrabel always suspected that one of those toughs saw Irene as a lonely kid who
was looking for attention -- in other words, an easy mark.
The cops thought so, too. They knew that Blasi had kept dangerous company "from
the time that she was very young," said one law enforcement official familiar
with the case.
When Blasi was killed, investigators immediately turned to her biker friends.
"They didn't find anything," the official said.
For a time, the case lingered in limbo.
But in 1976, investigators thought they caught a break: Alves had been arrested
on rape and assault charges, and authorities learned that he told one of his
victims he had killed 15 girls in 10 years.
In hindsight, it may have been a boast, a calculated attempt to strike terror
in his victim, the official said. But investigators took it seriously.
According to a confidential January 1995 document from the Bergen County
Prosecutor's Office that has been making the rounds the past week, Alves and
Blasi both worked for an executive cleaning service in Hackensack.
But investigators to this point haven't found any evidence to charge Alves with
the murder of Blasi or any of the other young females, the official said
Monday. Three decades later, their killings remain unsolved.
Vrabel said she never heard the name Alves until last week, when the
confidential memo leaked out, identifying him as a suspect in the six unsolved
killings and a possible suspect in two others.
She started out looking to trace her family tree. Now, Rose Vrabel finds
herself studying pictures of Alves on the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Web
site.
Can she read anything in those prison photos that prosecutors and cops don't
already know? Could that be the face of her cousin's killer?
"I don't know," Vrabel said. "Why not? Why couldn't he be?"
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Cujo
>Hello,
>
> About a week or so ago, I posted the news that a 1970's serial rapist
named
>Raymond Alves had been paroled from prison, but FAILED to register as a sex
>offender as he was required to do, and could not be found. Prosecutors very
>quickly began declaring that Raymond was a PRIME suspect in the unsolved
SERIAL
>killings of young gals in New Jersey, that had occured in the 1970's. NOW,
the
>media says that Raymond at some point CONFESSED to serially killing a DOZEN
or
>so gals.
That's enough to hold him for further questioning.
> The BAD news is that after enjoying a few weeks of freedom as a fugitive,
the
>FBI and other police HAVE managed to track down and re-arrested Raymond
last
>night, at a train station in New Jersey. So, he really DIDN'T get very far,
>from where he was released. If I were him, I probably would have
IMMEDIATELY
>tried to put at LEAST 1000 miles of distance between myself and where I was
>released from, and STAYED far away from the release state.
That was pretty obvious and just tells me the guy ain't real smart.
> Raymond is charged with "unlawful flight", and failing to register as a
sex
>offender. The State will PROBABLY, and OUTRAGEOUSLY, seek to INVOLUNTARILY
>COMMIT 57 year old Raymond to a LOONY BIN, for being a "sexually violent
>predator". That is the ZENITH of perverse hypocrisy! You CHOSE, as a
society,
>to SEEK to inflict PUNITIVE jail time upon this VICTIM, you SUCCEEDED in
>getting him CONDEMNED to spend 2 DECADES in prison, and only NOW, when your
>ABILITY to keep him locked up in PRISON may no longer exist, you seek to
get
>him thrown into a loony bin, a place that he SHOULD have been sent to from
the
>VERY BEGINNING, INSTEAD of prison, if indeed he was mentally ill. Of course
>these loony bins are STRUCTURED to be PUNITIVELY punishing, not
>treatment-oriented. But still, the GALL of you evil creatures, to IMPOSE 20
>years of punitive punishment that involve REJECTING Raymond's mental
illness,
>and then turning around 20+ years later and EMBRACING the notion of his
mental
>illness, for the sole purpose of KEEPING him locked up, is mindboggling, in
>it's OVERT malice.
It's the law and he broke it. BTW "loony bin" isn't a very nice way to refer
to an insane asylum.
> It does NOT sound as though prosecutors have the EVIDENCE needed, to
charge
>Raymond with ANY of the 6-12 gal murders they SAY they suspect him of
>committing.
They may not yet, but I'll bet they will real soon.
Let's see who's right.
