'Mystery Man' Key in Stabbing Death by SUSAN HOOPER Police Little Information on the Man Named Doug
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Monday NAACP leader blasts Spring training report Specials Reagan policy, page 4 by Dick Young, page 11 The Daily Register Itlonmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL, 104 NO. 215 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1982 25 CENTS* 'Mystery man' key in stabbing death By SUSAN HOOPER police little information on the man named Doug. MIDDLETOWN - Police yesterday released "He's like a mystery man," Monahan said. a composite sketch of a man wanted for ques- "Nobody knows anything about him." tioning in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Monahan said some of Clark's friends had Fair Haven woman whose body was found by the seen the man once, and some had seen him wooded edge of a township road early Saturday twice. But Monahan said Clark had not told her morning. friends anything about the man, except that she Township police officers stressed that the was "going out with a guy named Doug." man in the composite it not a suspect In the Monahan said that when Clark's friends met case, but is a "possible witness." the man, he appeared "quiet." The body of Nancy Clark, 22, of 26 Church St., According to witnesses, "he didn't volunteer Fair Haven, was found by police shortly before 4 any information," Monahan said. a.m. at the edge of Whipporwlll Valley Road Clark , a 1978 graduate of Rumson-Fair just south of Kings Highway East, police said. Haven Regional High School, had been em- Paul F. Chalet, first assistant Monmouth ployed as a cashier at Butch's Automatic Car County prosecutor, said an autopsy by Dr. Wash in Red Bank. She lived at home with her Stanley Becker, county medical examiner, re- father, John, who is paralyzed and confined to a vealed the cause of death to be a single stab wheelchair. wound to the heart. Neither Chalet nor police According to Monahan, Clark and several here would comment on what weapon may have friends visited two Sea Bright bars Friday night. been used, or offer a motive for the stabbing. Monahan said Clark was picked up by a Township Police Lt. Walter Monahan said girlfriend at about 8:30 p.m. and went first to there was "no evidence" of sexual assault. the Oceanfront Saloon on Ocean Avenue in the Investigators from the county prosecutor's center of Sea Bright office and the township police department are Monahan said Clark and friends next drove to conducting a joint investigation, in which they MISSING WITNESS — This Is the State have already talked to more than fifty witnesses the Tropical Pub on Ocean Avenue on the north end of Sea Bright. Police composite sketch of a man, known who had knowledge of Clark's whereabouts Fri- as Doug, seen with Nancy Clark on the day night, police said Witnesses said Clark was seen with the man See Mystery, page 4 night of her death. Monahan, who is directing the township po- lice department's investigation along with Capt. William Halliday, said yesterday that the man depicted in the composite sketch was a friend of Clark's whom she introduced to friends as "Doug." Friends said Clark had been dating the man for a "couple of weeks," Monahan said. But Monahan said none of Clark's friends knew much about the man. •nlttar HUH »* Urn Ptriu Halliday and Monahan emphasized that the FARMHOUSE FIRE — Middletown firefighters battle a fire which gutted an 18th-century man is not a suspect, but a "possible witness." farmhouse at 169 Monmouth Ave., Naveflnk, last night. No one was home at the time at "He is someone who might help us in the the blare. Story on page 4. case," Halliday said. "He's the only one we have not been able to get a hold of," Monahan said. Witnesses described the man as about 22 years old, between 57" and I'll" tall, and Council foe wants weighing approxirr ately 170 pounds, police said. Witnesses said the man has dark hair and dark eyes, and acne scars on his face, police said. He has no facial hair, and no other dist- inguishing marks or scars, police said, Camassa to resign Police said the man was last seen with Clark at the Tropical Pub on Ocean Avenue in Sea By LAURA QUINN Last year, the county prosecutor's office Bright Friday night. At the time, police said, the investigated the borough's business affiliation man was wearing a red plaid sports shirt and Rtflllltr ph«to by LJrrv Ptrft* WEST LONG BRANCH — Democratic Coun- with Camassa. DeCamp-Camassa Associates, in khaki pants. Witnesses described the man as a BODY FOUND — The body of Nancy Clark was found by police along this wooded which Camassa is a principal, sold the borough cilman John J. Paolantonlo Jr. is calling (or the "neat dresser," police said. embankment on Whipporwill Valley Road looking towards Kings Highway East in four insurance policies and or bonds. immediate resignation of Republican Coun- Monahan said friends of Clark could give Middletown early Saturday morning. cilman Anthony J. Camassa for refusing to A grand jury termed the relationship "a return the money his Insurance company made conflict of Interests" and suggested that on borough policies. Camassa pay back the $3,753 he had earned from Paolantonlo, whose refusal to sign a pair of the borough in insurance fees. vouchers mad* out to Camassa's Insurance firm Last March, before the grand jury had made its conclusions, Camassa said, "If there is any Tragedies shaped victim's life last year triggered an investigation by the Mon- question that I did something wrong, I would be mouth County Prosecutor's Office, joined Dr. compounded by the pain of other shocks - one James Flanigan, a Democrat who served on the very happy to personally pay back any com- FAIR HAVEN - She was a "happy-go-lucky "She would just go and just paint," her cousin said. of which, a friend said, would be too much for council from 1973 to 1976, in calling for missions to the borough or to donate them" to a girl," her cousin said — but she had watched her "worthy cause." mother die of cancer and her father suffer a fall She was "very strong," another cousin said, most families. Camassa's resignation. Nancy's aunt, Mary Farley, and her cousins, But, as of Thursday, Camassa had not re- which would paralyze him permanently. and she had to be - because she had nursed her At Thursday's council meeting, Flanigan mother and helped care for her father Gail Krug, 29, and Steven Farley, 28, spoke by told Camassa, "I think you owe it to the people funded the fee* to the borough. She was an athlete, her aunt said, who liked But sometimes, be continued, she became telephone last night about their cousin, and the to resign," for not returning the insurance pre- "My attorneys are investigating the mat- to play Softball and visit a few favorite night "frustrated," because it seemed her life had sadness in their family. ter," said Camassa. spots. miums and for allowing a fire company expen- been shaped by tragedies over which she had no The Parleys live five houses down Church diture without council approval. "It's his own decision whether or not to She was a cashier at a car wash, a counter girl at a dell. control. Street in Fair Haven from the Clarki, and Krug Paolantonlo said Camassa dishonored the pay," GOP Councilman Robert M. Shirvanian said the cousins are all "very close ' said yesterday, adding that the county prose- But she was also an artist, a cousin said, with Nancy Clark died Saturday morning, in an- council and violated both council procedure and other tragedy over which she apparently had no Clark's mother, Beatrice, died in December cutor had "In no way asked for (Camassa's) a talent inherited from her father, and some- the taxpayer's rights In the cases cited by control. of cancer, after a three-year illness. Mary Flanigan. "For., all the people, Mr. Camassa resignation" or demanded that the insurance times she would "escape" by sketching the She died suddenly, and she died cruelly, and Farley said. Beatrice Clark was Mary Farley's should resign," Paolantonlo asserted. 8ee Council, page II nearby sea. her friends and family say they are still numb sister. from the shock. See Tragedies, page 4 But it is a shock that, for her family, Is Tempted senator hits The Inside Story Three nabbed ^•aaau LaV in Colts Neck Williams' judgment THE WEATHER Rain ending today with clearing by 10- By MIKE SIIANAIIAN aigat. Complete report page I. marij uana raid WASHINGTON (AP) - A senator who Senate critic admires COLTS NECK — Federal Drug Enforcement Fire gats farmhouse I rejected a potential Abscam bribe says Har- m'.-ifj-—.- «__;# » __„ a Agency officers yesterday arrested a local man rison A. Williams also should have walked trltUatng ffrit, page O Voting la Guatemala t and two Brooklyn men after seizing more than out when an FBI team tempted him to take President gets joke .'. t 500 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated \ E^^ aWafl street value of at least $300,000 "I can see a reasonable man getting than expel Williams, who has been sentenced Advice I Michael Colangelo, 42, of 3 Fairway West in Involved in one or two meetings," said Sen. to three years In prison and fined (50,000 on Arts 7 DAILY REGISTER Colts Neck, was charged with possession of a Larry Prettier, "but Williams kept going bribery and conspiracy convictions, Births II PHONE NUMBERS controlled dangerous substance, possession of a back for more." In other Capitol Hill business this week, Basinets I CDS with intent to distribute, conspiracy to Pressler, 39, a freshman Republican from President Reagan is scheduled to meet Tues- Classified...