Missing Woman: Barbara Jean Monaco - VA - 08/23/1978
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Missing Since: August 23, 1978 from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Classification: Endangered Missing
DOB: August 19. 1960
Age: 18 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 110 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Monaco previously suffered a hairline fracture to her left arm.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A long-sleeved yellow shirt, blue jeans and clogs.
Details of Disappearance:
Monaco and her older sister lived in Derby, Connecticut in 1978. They took a vacation south to to Virginia Beach, Virginia on August 20, the day after Monaco's eighteenth birthday, and registered at the Aloha Motel on 15th Street. They planned to stay in Virginia for a week.
Monaco and her sister went to the Country Comfort bar on Pacific Avenue on the night of August 22. A man there kept urging Monaco to go out with him, and told her he had a yacht, but she was uninterested. Monaco was last seen at 1 a.m. on August 23, when she left her sister and began walking to a bar called Peabody's, where she had a prearranged date with a bartender. The bar was six blocks away. Witnesses saw Monaco get into a car on Pacific Avenue; the vehicle reportedly contained four or five men. She never arrived for her date and has never been heard from again. Her sister tried to report her as a missing person later that day, but the police refused to take a report for 48 hours.
Eight months after Monaco's disappearance, her family advertised a $10,000 reward for her recovery, dead or alive. In response to the ad, a man came forward claiming he had witnessed Monaco's rape and murder the night of her disappearance. he told investigators that Monaco's killers had abducted her as she walked along Pacific Avenue, put her in a sedan, drove her to a lakeside cottage near Oceana, Virginia, killed her and dumped her body in a lake. Authorities dragged the lake and found a cinder block with a rope tied to it, but they didn't find Monaco's remains. The informant reportedly passed a polygraph exam, but he ceased cooperating after authorities refused to offer him immunity from prosecution for his testimony. Other witnesses and suspects have been interviewed over the years. James L. "Jimbo" Moore Jr. spoke to the police in 2004 and reportedly gave them information he could only have known if he was with Monaco on the night of her disappearance. He agreed to take a polygraph to verify the authenticity of his story, but only hours after he made his statement, before he could take the test, took his own life outside his apartment.
No arrests have been made in connection with Monaco's case. Her family held a memorial service for her in 2003, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of her disappearance. Monaco is a graduate of Derby High School; she was a drum majorette there. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance due to the circumstances involved.
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Virginia Beach Police Department at 757-427-4101.
Missing Since: August 23, 1978 from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Classification: Endangered Missing
DOB: August 19. 1960
Age: 18 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 110 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Monaco previously suffered a hairline fracture to her left arm.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A long-sleeved yellow shirt, blue jeans and clogs.
Details of Disappearance:
Monaco and her older sister lived in Derby, Connecticut in 1978. They took a vacation south to to Virginia Beach, Virginia on August 20, the day after Monaco's eighteenth birthday, and registered at the Aloha Motel on 15th Street. They planned to stay in Virginia for a week.
Monaco and her sister went to the Country Comfort bar on Pacific Avenue on the night of August 22. A man there kept urging Monaco to go out with him, and told her he had a yacht, but she was uninterested. Monaco was last seen at 1 a.m. on August 23, when she left her sister and began walking to a bar called Peabody's, where she had a prearranged date with a bartender. The bar was six blocks away. Witnesses saw Monaco get into a car on Pacific Avenue; the vehicle reportedly contained four or five men. She never arrived for her date and has never been heard from again. Her sister tried to report her as a missing person later that day, but the police refused to take a report for 48 hours.
Eight months after Monaco's disappearance, her family advertised a $10,000 reward for her recovery, dead or alive. In response to the ad, a man came forward claiming he had witnessed Monaco's rape and murder the night of her disappearance. he told investigators that Monaco's killers had abducted her as she walked along Pacific Avenue, put her in a sedan, drove her to a lakeside cottage near Oceana, Virginia, killed her and dumped her body in a lake. Authorities dragged the lake and found a cinder block with a rope tied to it, but they didn't find Monaco's remains. The informant reportedly passed a polygraph exam, but he ceased cooperating after authorities refused to offer him immunity from prosecution for his testimony. Other witnesses and suspects have been interviewed over the years. James L. "Jimbo" Moore Jr. spoke to the police in 2004 and reportedly gave them information he could only have known if he was with Monaco on the night of her disappearance. He agreed to take a polygraph to verify the authenticity of his story, but only hours after he made his statement, before he could take the test, took his own life outside his apartment.
No arrests have been made in connection with Monaco's case. Her family held a memorial service for her in 2003, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of her disappearance. Monaco is a graduate of Derby High School; she was a drum majorette there. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance due to the circumstances involved.
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Virginia Beach Police Department at 757-427-4101.
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Posted 05 October 2010 - 09:38 AM
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Va. Beach joins national effort on missing persons
By Kathy Adams The Virginian-Pilot October 4, 2010
Barbara Jean Monaco, a Connecticut teenager on a graduation trip with her sister, disappeared from the Oceanfront early the morning of Aug. 23, 1978.
She was never found.
Now detectives are taking another crack at the case using a new tool - a national database that links missing persons investigations with information on unidentified remains.
This summer, the Police Department submitted 22 unsolved missing persons cases to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The database, nicknamed NamUs, allows law enforcement personnel, medical examiners, coroners, victims' families and others to upload information that may help solve cases like Monaco's.
Now, if a body is found or pulled from storage that matches Monaco's NamUs profile, which includes dental records, DNA samples and other information, the database will make the link.
In the past three years, it has helped close at least 35 missing persons cases, Todd Matthews, a regional system administrator for NamUs, said in an e-mail. There are about 5,300 in the system, he said.
Nationwide, more than 89,000 missing persons cases are unsolved, said Harry Carlile, a training instructor for the FBI. More than 7,000 unidentified bodies have been recovered, he said. The hope is that NamUs will close the gap.
Virginia Beach police hosted a regional training conference on the system last week.
The department is one of the first local law enforcement agencies to use it, said Officer Jimmy Barnes, a police spokesman.
During the conference, NamUs volunteer Betty Brown shared the story of her 11-year search to find her brother, who she said was taken by his father from a small West Virginia town in 1957.
She finally found him
last year, living in Yemen, his father's homeland, she said.
NamUs gives families hope, Brown said. Every time there's an update in the investigation, the system sends an e-mail to the family, she said.
"With that e-mail update, they know that somebody is working on the case," she said.
The effort has renewed hope for the families of Virginia Beach's 22 missing persons in NamUs, said Detective Angela Murphy, who spearheaded the effort to join NamUs for the Police Department's Missing Persons Unit.
"The families are just so happy," she said. "Some of them are just amazed that we're still looking for them."
Va. Beach joins national effort on missing persons
By Kathy Adams The Virginian-Pilot October 4, 2010
Barbara Jean Monaco, a Connecticut teenager on a graduation trip with her sister, disappeared from the Oceanfront early the morning of Aug. 23, 1978.
She was never found.
Now detectives are taking another crack at the case using a new tool - a national database that links missing persons investigations with information on unidentified remains.
This summer, the Police Department submitted 22 unsolved missing persons cases to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The database, nicknamed NamUs, allows law enforcement personnel, medical examiners, coroners, victims' families and others to upload information that may help solve cases like Monaco's.
Now, if a body is found or pulled from storage that matches Monaco's NamUs profile, which includes dental records, DNA samples and other information, the database will make the link.
In the past three years, it has helped close at least 35 missing persons cases, Todd Matthews, a regional system administrator for NamUs, said in an e-mail. There are about 5,300 in the system, he said.
Nationwide, more than 89,000 missing persons cases are unsolved, said Harry Carlile, a training instructor for the FBI. More than 7,000 unidentified bodies have been recovered, he said. The hope is that NamUs will close the gap.
Virginia Beach police hosted a regional training conference on the system last week.
The department is one of the first local law enforcement agencies to use it, said Officer Jimmy Barnes, a police spokesman.
During the conference, NamUs volunteer Betty Brown shared the story of her 11-year search to find her brother, who she said was taken by his father from a small West Virginia town in 1957.
She finally found him
last year, living in Yemen, his father's homeland, she said.
NamUs gives families hope, Brown said. Every time there's an update in the investigation, the system sends an e-mail to the family, she said.
"With that e-mail update, they know that somebody is working on the case," she said.
The effort has renewed hope for the families of Virginia Beach's 22 missing persons in NamUs, said Detective Angela Murphy, who spearheaded the effort to join NamUs for the Police Department's Missing Persons Unit.
"The families are just so happy," she said. "Some of them are just amazed that we're still looking for them."
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NamUs Profile for Barbara: https://www.findthem...g.org/cases/947
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IT'S A CRIME 1978 KILLING OF VACATIONER STILL UNSOLVED.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
The Virginian Pilot; 8/22/2002
Byline: Kerry Dougherty
Recently Newsweek magazine ran a cover story called ``Visions of Heaven.'' Seems that most Americans - optimists that we are - believe in the notion of paradise.
But few of us believe in hell.
That's surprising. I may be in the minority, but I'm a believer in eternal torment.
For Barbara Jean Monaco's sake, I hope I'm right.
Because it's beginning to look as though the only justice that may ever be meted out to the killers of this Connecticut teenager will be in the hereafter.
Yes, it's that time of year again. Time to pause and remember Barbara Jean Monaco. The girl who came to Virginia Beach for a vacation 24 years ago and never left.
Not alive, anyway.
She's been missing since August 23, 1978.
You think Chandra Levy's parents suffered an unimaginable ordeal, wondering what happened to their daughter for more than a year? You think the Smart family in Utah is weary after waiting more than two months for news of young Elizabeth?
Think about Barbara Jean Monaco's family. They've been waiting since Jimmy Carter's presidency to know what really happened to Barbara Jean.
Unbelievable as it seems, they still have hope. Hope that those who killed Barbara Jean or those with guilty knowledge of what happened to her will finally talk.
Most of all, the family hopes to find Barbara Jean's remains and bring her home for a proper burial. They want a place to take flowers.
As the psychobabblists say, they want closure.
And if it's not asking too much, her parents would like this before they die of old age.
If she were still among the living, Barbara Jean would have turned 42 on Monday. She'd probably be married, maybe with kids, living in Connecticut like her two older sisters. Most likely, she'd be helping her 71-year-old mom care for her 78-year-old father, who's been in a wheelchair since he had a stroke several years ago.
Instead, Barbara Jean is frozen in time - forever 18 - because of a fatal mistake she made the summer after she graduated from high school: She vacationed in Virginia Beach.
While Barbara Jean was here she met some local boys. She was seen getting into a car with four or five of them on Pacific Avenue late one night.
Then she vanished.
Eight months later, an informant came forward and told a terrifying tale of gang rape in a rural Virginia Beach cottage. He told of Barbara Jean's strangulation and of several gruesome attempts to hide her lifeless body.
The informant reportedly passed a police polygraph test.
Despite repeated assurances to the family that an arrest was imminent, no one was ever charged with Barbara Jean Monaco's murder, and her body was never found.
The police think they know who was with her the night she was murdered. A couple of the suspects still live in the area.
Frankly, I don't know how these guys sleep at night. How they look at themselves in the mirror. Or at their own daughters, if they have any.
Last summer, the cold Monaco case seemed to be getting warm. At last, one of the suspects - one who wasn't lawyered up - agreed to a polygraph test.
Hours after he left the police station, he parked his truck off Laskin Road and ran a hose from the tailpipe into the cab. The suspect was dead by morning. That was one year ago.
Before he died, the Beach man provided the cops with some interesting tidbits. The Monaco family say police told them that he offered details about Barbara Jean that only someone who was with her on the night she died would know.
A description of her shoes, for instance.
Imagine. Twenty-three years had gone by and he could still see those shoes. Whatever he did or witnessed on that hot August night must have haunted him.
Many people are haunted by the Monaco case.
``It's flashback week,'' Joanne Monaco-Stec told me when I phoned her on Tuesday. Joanne is one of Barbara Jean's sisters, the one who was with her in Virginia Beach in 1978. She said her family always dreads the third week in August. ``First Barbara Jean's birthday and then this.''
Joanne said the family had been buoyed by the recent guilty verdict in another old murder case. Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club 27 years ago in Greenwich, Conn., by Michael Skakel.
The killer was a cousin of the powerful Kennedy family. Yet all of the money and influence in the world didn't let him get away with murder.
``We watched that trial and we kept asking, `Why can't that happen in Virginia Beach?' '' Ms. Monaco-Stec said sadly.
Why, indeed.
http://www.highbeam....1-90660291.html
IT'S A CRIME 1978 KILLING OF VACATIONER STILL UNSOLVED.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
The Virginian Pilot; 8/22/2002
Byline: Kerry Dougherty
Recently Newsweek magazine ran a cover story called ``Visions of Heaven.'' Seems that most Americans - optimists that we are - believe in the notion of paradise.
But few of us believe in hell.
That's surprising. I may be in the minority, but I'm a believer in eternal torment.
For Barbara Jean Monaco's sake, I hope I'm right.
Because it's beginning to look as though the only justice that may ever be meted out to the killers of this Connecticut teenager will be in the hereafter.
Yes, it's that time of year again. Time to pause and remember Barbara Jean Monaco. The girl who came to Virginia Beach for a vacation 24 years ago and never left.
Not alive, anyway.
She's been missing since August 23, 1978.
You think Chandra Levy's parents suffered an unimaginable ordeal, wondering what happened to their daughter for more than a year? You think the Smart family in Utah is weary after waiting more than two months for news of young Elizabeth?
Think about Barbara Jean Monaco's family. They've been waiting since Jimmy Carter's presidency to know what really happened to Barbara Jean.
Unbelievable as it seems, they still have hope. Hope that those who killed Barbara Jean or those with guilty knowledge of what happened to her will finally talk.
Most of all, the family hopes to find Barbara Jean's remains and bring her home for a proper burial. They want a place to take flowers.
As the psychobabblists say, they want closure.
And if it's not asking too much, her parents would like this before they die of old age.
If she were still among the living, Barbara Jean would have turned 42 on Monday. She'd probably be married, maybe with kids, living in Connecticut like her two older sisters. Most likely, she'd be helping her 71-year-old mom care for her 78-year-old father, who's been in a wheelchair since he had a stroke several years ago.
Instead, Barbara Jean is frozen in time - forever 18 - because of a fatal mistake she made the summer after she graduated from high school: She vacationed in Virginia Beach.
While Barbara Jean was here she met some local boys. She was seen getting into a car with four or five of them on Pacific Avenue late one night.
Then she vanished.
Eight months later, an informant came forward and told a terrifying tale of gang rape in a rural Virginia Beach cottage. He told of Barbara Jean's strangulation and of several gruesome attempts to hide her lifeless body.
The informant reportedly passed a police polygraph test.
Despite repeated assurances to the family that an arrest was imminent, no one was ever charged with Barbara Jean Monaco's murder, and her body was never found.
The police think they know who was with her the night she was murdered. A couple of the suspects still live in the area.
Frankly, I don't know how these guys sleep at night. How they look at themselves in the mirror. Or at their own daughters, if they have any.
Last summer, the cold Monaco case seemed to be getting warm. At last, one of the suspects - one who wasn't lawyered up - agreed to a polygraph test.
Hours after he left the police station, he parked his truck off Laskin Road and ran a hose from the tailpipe into the cab. The suspect was dead by morning. That was one year ago.
Before he died, the Beach man provided the cops with some interesting tidbits. The Monaco family say police told them that he offered details about Barbara Jean that only someone who was with her on the night she died would know.
A description of her shoes, for instance.
Imagine. Twenty-three years had gone by and he could still see those shoes. Whatever he did or witnessed on that hot August night must have haunted him.
Many people are haunted by the Monaco case.
``It's flashback week,'' Joanne Monaco-Stec told me when I phoned her on Tuesday. Joanne is one of Barbara Jean's sisters, the one who was with her in Virginia Beach in 1978. She said her family always dreads the third week in August. ``First Barbara Jean's birthday and then this.''
Joanne said the family had been buoyed by the recent guilty verdict in another old murder case. Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club 27 years ago in Greenwich, Conn., by Michael Skakel.
The killer was a cousin of the powerful Kennedy family. Yet all of the money and influence in the world didn't let him get away with murder.
``We watched that trial and we kept asking, `Why can't that happen in Virginia Beach?' '' Ms. Monaco-Stec said sadly.
Why, indeed.
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Adult missing persons in Connecticut: Advocate says police aren't doing enough
Published: Sunday, December 18, 2011; Last Updated: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:55 AM EST
By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, Investigations Editor
Lisa Calvo was 40 years old and homeless when she was last seen in 2005 in the Fair Haven section of New Haven.
Nineteen-year-old Jose Ortiz was abducted while riding his bicycle on Dec. 28, 2005, in New Haven, and hasn’t been seen since.
Evelyn Frisco of New Haven had a court appearance in 2004, then disappeared.
Barbara Jean Monaco of Derby vanished in August 1978 at the age of 18 while vacationing in Virginia Beach, Va. She has never been found and is believed to have been murdered.
They are just a few of the state’s missing, people who have left behind families mourning their absence and questioning what happened to them.
To try to address the problem and solve the mysteries surrounding missing residents’ disappearances, State Victim Advocate Michelle Cruz plans to propose the creation of a statewide missing persons unit to the legislature.
“We need a missing persons unit for the whole state devoted to working on these cases,” Cruz said. “A lot of police departments have had to cut back. Bigger cities have a lot of unsolved murders, so they are under a lot of pressure. I think having a missing persons unit for the state, a centralized investigative unit, would help.”
Families seek more help
Cheshire resident Janice Smolinski’s son, William Smolinski Jr. of Waterbury, disappeared Aug. 24, 2004, at the age of 31, and police say they believe he was murdered. Janice Smolinski, who has become an advocate for the missing, said she believes having a state missing persons unit would be “very helpful.”
“Maybe more would be done about missing people,” Smolinski said. “Hopefully, it would mean big improvements in the state. I’m happy to see the state’s victim advocate is dedicated to this cause.”
“While some adults are people who have taken off, there are many cases where something has happened to them — either they were murdered or got hurt somewhere — and police need to take it seriously,” Smolinski said.
Diane Nickerson of Naugatuck is looking for answers into the disappearance of her daughter, Carrie Ann Monroe, who had been living with her boyfriend at a Berlin hotel when she vanished about two years ago.
“I think a missing persons unit would be helpful,” said Nickerson, who broke down crying when she talked about her daughter. “It has been two years for us.”
Please read more at the link above.
Adult missing persons in Connecticut: Advocate says police aren't doing enough
Published: Sunday, December 18, 2011; Last Updated: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:55 AM EST
By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, Investigations Editor
Lisa Calvo was 40 years old and homeless when she was last seen in 2005 in the Fair Haven section of New Haven.
Nineteen-year-old Jose Ortiz was abducted while riding his bicycle on Dec. 28, 2005, in New Haven, and hasn’t been seen since.
Evelyn Frisco of New Haven had a court appearance in 2004, then disappeared.
Barbara Jean Monaco of Derby vanished in August 1978 at the age of 18 while vacationing in Virginia Beach, Va. She has never been found and is believed to have been murdered.
They are just a few of the state’s missing, people who have left behind families mourning their absence and questioning what happened to them.
To try to address the problem and solve the mysteries surrounding missing residents’ disappearances, State Victim Advocate Michelle Cruz plans to propose the creation of a statewide missing persons unit to the legislature.
“We need a missing persons unit for the whole state devoted to working on these cases,” Cruz said. “A lot of police departments have had to cut back. Bigger cities have a lot of unsolved murders, so they are under a lot of pressure. I think having a missing persons unit for the state, a centralized investigative unit, would help.”
Families seek more help
Cheshire resident Janice Smolinski’s son, William Smolinski Jr. of Waterbury, disappeared Aug. 24, 2004, at the age of 31, and police say they believe he was murdered. Janice Smolinski, who has become an advocate for the missing, said she believes having a state missing persons unit would be “very helpful.”
“Maybe more would be done about missing people,” Smolinski said. “Hopefully, it would mean big improvements in the state. I’m happy to see the state’s victim advocate is dedicated to this cause.”
“While some adults are people who have taken off, there are many cases where something has happened to them — either they were murdered or got hurt somewhere — and police need to take it seriously,” Smolinski said.
Diane Nickerson of Naugatuck is looking for answers into the disappearance of her daughter, Carrie Ann Monroe, who had been living with her boyfriend at a Berlin hotel when she vanished about two years ago.
“I think a missing persons unit would be helpful,” said Nickerson, who broke down crying when she talked about her daughter. “It has been two years for us.”
Please read more at the link above.
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Missing in Connecticut: Family seeks justice in woman's 1978 death
Published: Saturday, February 25, 2012
By Brian McCready, Milford Bureau Chief
DERBY — Almost 34 years ago, Barbara Jean Monaco, just 18, disappeared without a trace while celebrating her birthday in Virginia Beach, Va.
In many long-term missing persons cases, the family is in the dark about what happened to their loved one, but not so for the Monaco family. The Monaco family is all too aware of the grim details surrounding Barbara Jean’s disappearance and death.
An informant called “Condor” told authorities in April 1979 that four men abducted, raped and killed Monaco, who lived in Derby and had just graduated from Derby High School. The men tied a cinderblock to her body and threw her into a pond. She disappeared Aug. 24, 1978.
The “knowing” what happened to Monaco provided little solace to her family, including her sisters, Joanne Monaco-Stec, 56, of Derby, and Theresa Maciog, 58, of Orange; and her mother, Pauline E. Monaco, 81, of Derby.
“I didn’t need to know the details,” Maciog said. “Talking about them makes me sick.”
Family members say they want to see justice. They want to see the men who killed Barbara Jean prosecuted and put behind bars. One of the suspects in the slaying committed suicide in 2001, after being questioned by Virginia Beach police.
“The people who did this are walking around like nothing happened,” Maciog said. “They committed murder and are getting away with it.”
Family members can name the four suspects. They know one suspect lives in California and two more are in Virginia. Virginia Beach police haven’t made an arrest largely because Barbara Jean’s body has never been found.
But they still hold out hope that the three remaining suspects are one day prosecuted. Family members say they have renewed hope, as it’s believed Barbara Jean’s body resurfaced after she was killed, and was buried near the pond.
Just last year Virginia Beach police asked for the female family members’ DNA.
Last year, police also combed the area in hopes of finding her remains, but nothing was found, said Jimmy Barnes, a Virginia Beach police spokesman. Barnes said the family is correct that the suspects have been identified, but the investigation continues. He declined further comment.
Relatives of Barbara Jean say they are cautiously optimistic a resolution may be nearing.
“Anything to bring closure would bring peace of mind,” her mother said. “My husband didn’t die with peace of mind. If they found the remains it would give us some real closure. It gets your hopes up.”
Monaco-Stec said it’s hard for her to really believe there will one day be closure.
“Our hopes have been up before,” she said.
“We have to do what we have to do to find our sister,” Maciog said. “It’s not easy bringing this up again. We will never stop looking for her.”
18th Birthday
Monaco-Stec planned to go to Virginia Beach with her two friends when she decided to bring her sister, Barbara Jean, who just turned 18, as a birthday gift. Monaco-Stec, who is five years older than Barbara Jean, recalled her sister was very ill months before the trip. Barbara Jean was in the intensive care unit of a hospital and breathing on a respirator, but her health rebounded. For the first few days, the four girls hung out at the beach during the day and went clubbing at night.
On the third night of the trip, Barbara Jean left the hotel room alone to get some cigarettes and planned to meet everyone at a club, but never showed up. Monaco-Stec said she grew “alarmed” when her sister did not return to the hotel. She searched for the guy her sister met at the club, but he said Barbara Jean never arrived for their date.
“I knew she’d never leave the hotel and not come back,” Monaco-Stec said. After 18 hours, Monaco-Stec went to police, but was told she needed to wait 48 hours.
Read more: http://nhregister.co...iewmode=default
Published: Saturday, February 25, 2012
By Brian McCready, Milford Bureau Chief
DERBY — Almost 34 years ago, Barbara Jean Monaco, just 18, disappeared without a trace while celebrating her birthday in Virginia Beach, Va.
In many long-term missing persons cases, the family is in the dark about what happened to their loved one, but not so for the Monaco family. The Monaco family is all too aware of the grim details surrounding Barbara Jean’s disappearance and death.
An informant called “Condor” told authorities in April 1979 that four men abducted, raped and killed Monaco, who lived in Derby and had just graduated from Derby High School. The men tied a cinderblock to her body and threw her into a pond. She disappeared Aug. 24, 1978.
The “knowing” what happened to Monaco provided little solace to her family, including her sisters, Joanne Monaco-Stec, 56, of Derby, and Theresa Maciog, 58, of Orange; and her mother, Pauline E. Monaco, 81, of Derby.
“I didn’t need to know the details,” Maciog said. “Talking about them makes me sick.”
Family members say they want to see justice. They want to see the men who killed Barbara Jean prosecuted and put behind bars. One of the suspects in the slaying committed suicide in 2001, after being questioned by Virginia Beach police.
“The people who did this are walking around like nothing happened,” Maciog said. “They committed murder and are getting away with it.”
Family members can name the four suspects. They know one suspect lives in California and two more are in Virginia. Virginia Beach police haven’t made an arrest largely because Barbara Jean’s body has never been found.
But they still hold out hope that the three remaining suspects are one day prosecuted. Family members say they have renewed hope, as it’s believed Barbara Jean’s body resurfaced after she was killed, and was buried near the pond.
Just last year Virginia Beach police asked for the female family members’ DNA.
Last year, police also combed the area in hopes of finding her remains, but nothing was found, said Jimmy Barnes, a Virginia Beach police spokesman. Barnes said the family is correct that the suspects have been identified, but the investigation continues. He declined further comment.
Relatives of Barbara Jean say they are cautiously optimistic a resolution may be nearing.
“Anything to bring closure would bring peace of mind,” her mother said. “My husband didn’t die with peace of mind. If they found the remains it would give us some real closure. It gets your hopes up.”
Monaco-Stec said it’s hard for her to really believe there will one day be closure.
“Our hopes have been up before,” she said.
“We have to do what we have to do to find our sister,” Maciog said. “It’s not easy bringing this up again. We will never stop looking for her.”
18th Birthday
Monaco-Stec planned to go to Virginia Beach with her two friends when she decided to bring her sister, Barbara Jean, who just turned 18, as a birthday gift. Monaco-Stec, who is five years older than Barbara Jean, recalled her sister was very ill months before the trip. Barbara Jean was in the intensive care unit of a hospital and breathing on a respirator, but her health rebounded. For the first few days, the four girls hung out at the beach during the day and went clubbing at night.
On the third night of the trip, Barbara Jean left the hotel room alone to get some cigarettes and planned to meet everyone at a club, but never showed up. Monaco-Stec said she grew “alarmed” when her sister did not return to the hotel. She searched for the guy her sister met at the club, but he said Barbara Jean never arrived for their date.
“I knew she’d never leave the hotel and not come back,” Monaco-Stec said. After 18 hours, Monaco-Stec went to police, but was told she needed to wait 48 hours.
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Barbara has now been missing 34 years. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends and loved ones.
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http://wtkr.com/2013...-hampton-roads/
Database lists 25 open cases of missing women in Hampton Roads
POSTED 11:23 AM, MAY 7, 2013, BY BECCA MITCHELL, UPDATED AT 11:28AM, MAY 7, 2013
According to the National Missing Persons Database, there are 163 open cases of missing persons in Virginia.
88 of those cases are missing women, and 25 of those are from Hampton Roads, with the earliest dating back to 1977.
Dana Turner – Chesapeake
Date last seen September 22, 2011
https://www.findthem.../cases/13936/10
Marlene Diane Robinson – Hampton
Date last seen May 31, 2002 21:45
https://www.findthem...n/cases/2645/27
Mary Everette Harrison – Hampton
Date last seen October 06, 1982 09:46
https://www.findthem...n/cases/9382/28
Jennifer Lynn Pandos – James City County
Date last seen February 10, 1987 00:00
https://www.findthem...n/cases/1785/38
Sophie May Rivera – Newport News
Date last seen September 07, 2003 00:00
https://www.findthem...en/cases/975/45
Autumn Wind Day – Newport News
Date last seen July 24, 2003 00:00
https://www.findthem...en/cases/977/46
Vereley Banks – Newport News
Date last seen June 09, 2011 00:00
https://www.findthem.../cases/14600/47
Anne Lynnette Turner - Newport News
Date last seen June 27, 2008 00:00
https://www.findthem.../cases/18029/48
Kathleen Patricia Haley - Newport News
Date last seen September 01, 2012 00:00
https://www.findthem.../cases/18160/49
Julie Marie Fraser – Norfolk
Date last seen February 01, 2003 00:00
https://www.findthem...n/cases/1012/50
Sharon Ivy Jones – Norfolk
Date last seen September 22, 2002 00:00
https://www.findthem...n/cases/1017/51
Tawanda Latisha Hill – Norfolk
Date last seen November 18, 2009 09:46
https://www.findthem...n/cases/8563/53
Bonnie Marie Houston – Norfolk (no image)
Date last seen August 01, 1986 00:00
https://www.findthem.../cases/19674/54
Janice Laneau Wright – Suffolk
Date last seen November 01, 1993 00:00
https://www.findthem.../cases/10788/75
Hope Renee Curry – Virginia Beach
Date last seen November 11, 2000 00:00
https://www.findthem...en/cases/945/76
Marcia Estelle Remick – Virginia Beach
Date last seen June 09, 1979 00:00
https://www.findthem...en/cases/946/77
Barbara Monaco – Virginia Beach
Date last seen August 23, 1978 02:00
https://www.findthem...en/cases/947/78
Judy Ann Sylvester – Virginia Beach
Date last seen January 24, 1977 00:00
https://www.findthem...en/cases/948/79
Margaret Marion – Virginia Beach
Date last seen March 08, 1994 00:00
https://www.findthem...n/cases/1200/80
Joyce Linda McCollum – Virginia Beach
Date last seen September 01, 2004 22:57
https://www.findthem...n/cases/7607/81
Charlene Marie Villinger – Virginia Beach
Date last seen September 04, 1989 15:53
https://www.findthem...n/cases/7616/82
Kim Ann Gonzalez – Virginia Beach
Date last seen April 09, 1997 19:29
https://www.findthem...n/cases/7627/83
Deborah Taylor – Virginia Beach
Date last seen September 11, 1994 08:29
https://www.findthem...n/cases/7636/84
Priscilla Giordano McKee – Virginia Beach
Date last seen March 26, 1991 04:00
https://www.findthem...n/cases/8529/85
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Barbara is still missing.
Virginia Beach Police Department at 757-427-4101.
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