Missing
Darlene Polizzi
Polizzi, approximately 1967; Raymond Alves, approximately 2000
Date and time person was reported missing : 04/24/1967
Missing location (approx) :
Lodi, New Jersey
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 11/07/1947 (73)
Age at the time of disappearance: 19 years old
Height / Weight : 5'3, 100 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A brown blouse, a polka-dotted skirt and a brown suede coat with a fur collar.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown/red hair, brown eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Polizzi was last seen at her apartment in the 400 block of Westminster Place in Lodi, New Jersey on April 24, 1967. She and her husband planned to move and were looking at other apartments. They viewed three apartments that day before coming back home.
Afterwards, her husband left the residence, leaving her there alone. When he returned, she was gone. She has never been heard from again. Her husband reported her missing the following day. Polizzi apparently took several clothing items with her, but she left behind the rest of her personal belongings, including her jewelry.
Raymond Alves lived in Polizzi's neighborhood in 1967. He worked with her husband at a sheet metal plant, and she was friends with his wife. The Alves family moved away the day after Polizzi disappeared.
A photograph of Alves is posted with this case summary. In 1974, he was convicted of raping a teenAge at the time of disappearance: r and tossing her off an overpass. He was released from prison in 2000, after serving 23 years of a 47-year sentence.
Authorities believe he may be a serial killer responsible for the murders of as many as seven teenAge at the time of disappearance: females whose bodies were found in Bergen County, New Jersey. He has not been charged in any of the deaths, however, and he has not been connected to Polizzi's disappearance.
Polizzi was a waitress at the Hangar Restaurant in Paramus, New Jersey at the time of her disappearance, and was a regular customer at Tommy's Diner on Paterson Avenue in Wallington, New Jersey. Her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Bergen County Prosecutor's Office
201-226-5653
September 2021 updates and sources
Bergen County Prosecutor's Office
The New Jersey Record
Illinois Department of Corrections
October 12, 2004. July 27, 2010; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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