DNA Identifies 1978 'Montauk Mary' as Sofia Marrone, Linking Her to 6-killer Richard Biegenwald
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 13
DNA Identifies 1978 'Montauk Mary' as Sofia Marrone, Linking Her to 6-killer Richard Biegenwald
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 13
Summary
Suffolk County investigators identified "Montauk Mary" nearly 50 years after her death as Sofia Margherita Marrone, a Pleasantville, New Jersey, woman found shot dead in Montauk on March 22, 1978.
New DNA methods broke the case, and prosecutors now believe Marrone may have been killed by Richard Biegenwald, who died in prison in 2008 after life sentences for six murders.
Tierney said Marrone was last seen leaving a Somers Point hospital on March 16, 1978, and was killed six days later with rare .22-caliber short rounds matching ammunition tied to Biegenwald.
A witness also reported a bearded man in a gold car with New Jersey plates near the park where her body was found, broadly matching Biegenwald and one of his vehicles, though authorities stopped short of calling the case solved.
Marrone was one of six long-unidentified victims named Thursday by Suffolk County's cold case task force, which officials say could become a model for other law enforcement agencies.