Richard Biegenwald, better known as “The Thrill Killer”, died yesterday at the age of 67 in the New Jersey State Prison. Biegenwald was sentence to four life sentences without the possibility of parole in 1983.
Richard Biegenwald’s troubled life started early. His alcoholic father frequently beat him when he was as a child and at the age of five he tried to burn down the family home. He was sent to a Rockland County Psychiatric Center for observation. By the time he was eight Biegenwald was drinking and gambling.
The Thrill Killer did his first kill at the age of 18 while robbing a Bayonne store killing the owner, Stephen Sladowski. He was caught, sentence and paroled in 1975.
After spending severals in and out of jail and getting married, Biegenwald was convicted of killing three teenage girls and a drug dealer in 1981 and 1982. The bodies of two of his victims were found dismembered and buried together in a shallow grave in the yard of his mother’s home on Staten Island.
On January 4, 1983, Richard Biegenwald shot and killed 18-year-old Anna Olesiewicz, whom he lured from the Asbury Park Boardwalk with the promise of marijuana. He was sentenced to death twice for the killing, but the State Supreme Court overturned the sentence both times.
Richard Biegenwald, “The Thrill Killer”, is dead, but it wasn’t soon enough or harsh enough as far as I’m concerned.
That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.
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