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James Koedatich: The 1982 Murders of Amie Hoffman and Deirdre O'Brien; and the Psychic Who Claimed she Saw Them.
In the final weeks of 1982, two young women vanished from ordinary places along familiar New Jersey roads. Eighteen-year-old Amie Hoffman disappeared after finishing a shift at a suburban shopping mall. Less than two weeks later, twenty-five-year-old Deirdre O’Brien was forced from the road, abducted, sexually assaulted, and stabbed. The attacks sent fear through Morris County and the surrounding communities. Women began watching their rearview mirrors. Families waited anxio
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