Crime & Safety
Police Develop New Info in a 30-Year-Old Township Murder
Woodbridge Police and the county Prosecutor's Office said they have new leads on an old murder.
Investigators said they have new leads in a 30-year-old township murder mystery.
In 1980, the body of Melvin Hopkins was found in a car parked in the dark shadows beneath the Driscoll and Edison bridges in Keasbey.
Hopkins had been severely beaten and stabbed to death.
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Both Woodbridge police and members of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office had engaged in an extensive investigation, but no arrests were made at that time.
Now investigators say they have developed new information in the case that may lead them closer to an arrest in the case.
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Authorities said they could not reveal the details of the new information.
Hopkins, 21, lived in Avenel and was a member of a rock band called High Voltage.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Det. Christopher Lyons of the Woodbridge Police Department at 732-602-7398, or Investigator Michael Daniewicz of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-4018.
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