
The Serial Homicide Case
of the Day, from
"Hunting Humans, the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Serial Killers"
, by
Michael Newton
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Zarinsky, Robert
Born in New Jersey during 1941, Robert Zarinsky exhibited signs of mental instability in adolescence. By the early 1960s, he was calling himself "Lt. Schaefer, leader of the American Republican Army." Convicted of arson and grave desecration after he torched five lumber yards and vandalized Jewish cemeteries in Monmouth and Union Counties, the one-man army spent thirteen months in Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital. Despite his daily contact with psychiatrists, Zarinsky still slipped through the net, his lethal quirks unrecognized by trained professionals. Settling in Linden, Zarinsky opened a wholesale produce business, but his darker fantasies cried out for satisfaction. In April 1969, Linda Balbanow, age 17, was kidnapped on the short walk home from her job at a drug store in Union County, New Jersey. Her lifeless body was recovered soon thereafter, floating in the Raritan River near Woodbridge. When 16-year-old Rosemary Calandriello disappeared from Atlantic Highlands, later that year, Zarinsky was charged with her kidnapping. Authorities delayed prosecution while the futile search for her body continued, and Zarinsky's attorney won dismissal of the charge on grounds his client was denied a speedy trial. In December 1974, police had their eyes on Zarinsky again, investigating the murders of Doreen Carlucci, 14, and Joanne Delardo, 15, in Middlesex County. The victims were kidnapped together, their bodies discarded in Manalapan Township, half naked, each strangled with electric cord. Detectives were still seeking positive links in the two recent crimes when they got a fresh break on the Calandriello abduction. According to acquaintances, Zarinsky had been boasting of the murder, confident that he could not be prosecuted in the absence of a body. Authorities felt otherwise. On February 25, 1975, Zarinsky was charged with the murder of Rosemary Calandriello, held in lied of $125,000 bond. His trial, in April, ended with Zarinsky's conviction of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The verdict was affirmed on appeal, in July 1976, the higher court ruling that failure to produce a victim's body is no bar to prosecution in a murder case. This
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