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« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2009, 08:20:45 PM »

Oh damn...I have skeletal remains in Brick. Apx. 18 miles north of South Seaside Park area. Located on 8/30/09.
Not a lot of info yet.....

http://www.app.com/article/20090831/NEWS/90831086/1070/NEWS02
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« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2009, 04:16:16 PM »

OK........not Julia. The remains have been there too long/rest of stats don't match up...
Tests yield details about skeletal remains found in Brick
By Matt Pais • STAFF WRITER • September 4, 2009

http://www.app.com/article/20090904/NEWS/90904097/1070/NEWS02
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« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2009, 09:41:50 PM »

Nutt, I don't know whether to be happy or sad.  It's a very odd feeling.
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« Reply #23 on: September 06, 2009, 06:36:13 PM »

When I was searching for news of Julia Madsen today, I came across an article that mentions Julia and her son Guy Madsen.  Guy was at a beach bar nearby when there was a rescue and drowning:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/police_discover_body_of_missin.html
Body of missing Voorhees teen found in Seaside Heights
by James Queally/The Star-Ledger
Saturday September 05, 2009, 8:00 AM

SEASIDE HEIGHTS -- A trio of teens out for a late-night swim made a grim discovery Friday night when they stumbled upon the body of a 16-year-old boy who went missing in the rough Seaside Heights surf Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

At 10:24 p.m. on Friday, three young women were swimming in the marsh near Dupont Avenue, according to Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas Boyd, when they noticed the body of Sal Roberts, a 16-year-old Voohrees teen who disappeared after he was knocked down by a powerful wave two days ago.
The women dragged the body onto the sand and then notified police, Boyd said.

Roberts was in the water with another friend when a massive wave knocked him off balance around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. The pair were among a group of seven teens from a group home in Somerdale run by the social service agency Youth Consultation Service, Boyd said Wednesday.

Lifeguards rescued the other boy on Wednesday, Boyd said, but could not locate Roberts in the rough surf. Shortly afterward, officials cleared the beach of all visitors, and a frantic search for the teen ensued.

Boyd described the boy as a "very poor swimmer," and said his fate looked grim Wednesday, despite a massive search effort that included members of the U.S. Coast Guard and State Police.

Increasingly turbulent surf kept rescue crews at bay over the course of the week, cutting short a Thursday afternoon search for the missing teen.

Guy Madsen, whose 72-year-old mother Julia went missing three months ago in Seaside Heights, was at the beach bar near Funtown Pier when he saw the girls struggling to pull the deceased teen ashore.

Moments later, bouncers from the bar rushed to aid in the recovery effort, Madsen said. Seaside Heights Police arrived on scene a short time later.

Madsen said the chilling discovery caused him to revisit the pain hanging over his family in recent months. Julia Madsen, 72, of Clifton, suffers from Alzheimer's disease and hasn't been seen since she left her Shore-side summer home for a walk in late June.

"I was just looking out at the ocean thinking about my Mom," he said. "It's so unfortunate. I feel for this family in the greatest way and I pray for this person. Unfortunately now this family has closure, and I hope someday our family can experience the closure that this poor family had to learn of tonight."
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« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2009, 03:08:58 AM »

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/family_of_missing_clifton_woma.html

Family of missing Clifton woman offering $40K reward for information

By James Queally
September 25, 2009, 7:36PM


BERKELEY TOWNSHIP - On the three-month anniversary of her disappearance, the family of a missing Clifton woman announced they are now offering a $40,000 reward for any information that can help State Police Detectives discover her whereabouts.

Julia Madsen, 72, suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and was last seen June 25 around 7 p.m., when she left her summer residence in South Seaside Beach for a late evening stroll. Madsen, who has not been seen since, left the house without her keys, wallet, or any form of identification, according to family members.

"Not a single hard clue has been produced in three months," Madsen’s son Guy said today.

The family posted a $25,000 reward seeking information on July 8.

The Madsen family met with N.J. State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes and several members of the State Police Missing Persons Unit today in Trenton to discuss the current status of the case, but Guy Madsen said investigators aren’t any closer to tracking down his mother.

On July 16, members of Texas Equusearch, a rescue group involved in several high-profile missing persons cases -- including Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared during a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005 -- conducted an exhaustive search of Island Beach State Park hoping to find a lead in the Madsen case, but their efforts turned up no results.

At this point, Madsen’s son is just hoping to hear any news about his mother, whether its good or bad.

"If somebody knows what happened to my mother and knows where her remains are, I would be happy to give them $40,000," he said. "We just want the closure that has eluded us.

Authorities ask anyone with information to contact Det. Sgt. Jack Donegan, of the State Police Missing Persons Unit, (609)-882-2000 ext. 6311.
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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2009, 10:00:37 AM »

I just happened to come across the article Linda posted in another newspaper.  Just thought I'd post Julie's picture, again.

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« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2009, 06:30:04 PM »

Thanks 2NJ.  I hope Julia Madsen will be found soon.  an angelic monkey
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« Reply #27 on: October 21, 2009, 12:45:18 AM »

Thanks 2NJ.  I hope Julia Madsen will be found soon.  an angelic monkey

Close to home, yet so far away....can't imagine how these families deal with it all.

Thanks, Muffy...I feel the same.
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« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2009, 09:08:48 PM »

Thanks 2NJ.  I hope Julia Madsen will be found soon.  an angelic monkey

How will their Thanksgiving be . . . sitting around a table . . . I truly cannot phantom the depth of their agony.
Seasons have come and gone for so many . . . and still no answers.  I truly hope the feel the presence of God's sweet grace.
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« Reply #29 on: December 26, 2009, 09:08:36 PM »

http://www.northjersey.com/news/122309_Six_months_later_no_trace_of_missing_72-year-old_Clifton_woman.html
Six months later, no trace of missing 72-year-old Clifton woman
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
BY JAMES YOO
The Record
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(There is a pic of Julia on the day she was reported missing and one of her husband Edward at the link)
CLIFTON — Edward Madsen, and his wife, Julia, had been inseparable for more than half a century, but this Christmas he finds himself without “the glue that held the family together.”
On Friday, it’ll be six months to the day since Julia Madsen, 72, went for a walk on the beach as their family vacationed at Berkeley Township in Ocean County, and disappeared. She had been diagnosed in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease a short time before.

A days-long search by authorities and volunteers turned up nothing. A $40,000 reward for information about her whereabouts has gone unclaimed.

“How is the holiday going to be? I have no idea,” said Edward Madsen, who said he wants the public to know what a great woman his wife was.

“She was just fabulous,” he said. “She loved life and she's good to everybody.”

In spite of the Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Julia Madsen still had her wits about her, Edward said. If she were lost, she’d have knocked on a door for directions.
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« Reply #30 on: December 26, 2009, 09:51:45 PM »

Very sad. I was just checking the other day for updates on her ... doesn't look good. 
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« Reply #31 on: December 27, 2009, 09:30:44 PM »

No, it doesn't look good.  Yet another heartbreaker.
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« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2010, 05:25:44 PM »

http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/case.cfm?id=68058

Julia Madsen Report a Tip

What Happened To Grandmother Julia Madsen?
 

Julia Madsen missing since June 25, 2009

On June 25, 2009, 72-year-old Julie Madsen was determined to enjoy the first evening of beautiful weather, following days of rain on the New Jersey Shore.

What happened when she went out for a short walk, no one knows.

Julie and her husband Ed had just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and Julie’s 72nd Birthday.

They decided to go down to their son's South Seadside Park beach house a few days early for the family’s traditional Fourth of July vacation. Although Julie had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she only had moments of mild confusion.

As she left she kissed Ed on the head and said, "I’ll be back soon."

After an hour and a half had passed, Ed realized she had not returned. He checked the house, and he checked the home's swimming pool, but there was no sign of Julie.

He went to the beach steps, looked up and down the beach for her pink top and called out her name, but she was nowhere to be found.

He then got into his car and drove around the block to where his son also has a condo. He drove around some more, this time to the bay, three blocks away.

Ed then called the police.

By 11 p.m., there were nine police cars at the residence. Helping out in the search were the Coast Guard, since there was rough surf that night, and a helicopter equipped with a spotlight, night vision and heat-sensing equipment, which police can use to locate someone in the dark.

Firemen and police departments from three towns came to help in the search.

With the support of family and friends, more than 2,000 missing persons flyers were distributed in a 30- mile radius to every business on the boardwalk and surrounding businesses in the nearby towns.

There was not one hotel, restaurant, store, or gas station that did not have Julie's picture posted.   The local, county, and state police orchestrated an impressive search that continued for days.

Texas EqquSearch was called in and they came in with a drone plane to take pictures of the expansive Island Beach State Park a short distance away.


They have exhausted all efforts and have turned to America's Most Wanted for help.

Family Comes To AMW For Help

Two weeks after Julie disappeared, the search was suspended.

Julie's family hopes of finding her alive has faded.  They have exhausted all efforts, and have turned to America's Most Wanted for help.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Julie Madsen please call 1-800-CRIME-TV.
 


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« Reply #33 on: June 25, 2010, 05:46:03 PM »

Ocean County woman's disappearance remains mystery one year later
Published: Friday, June 25, 2010

From the moment the call came at 9 p.m. on a summer’s eve, Detective Joe Santoro had a bad feeling.

At least once a week his police department helps locate a "wanderer," the clinical name for confused elderly residents who become lost on familiar turf. In Ocean County, where sprawling retirement communities dot the landscape, it’s a familiar drill that usually has a quick, happy ending.

But 72-year-old Julia Madsen was different: She’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her planned walk took her near the ocean, and it was already dark.

Within hours, low-flying helicopters from the N.J. State Police jolted awake sleeping vacationers, their searchlights sweeping the waters of Barnegat Bay.

On the ocean side of South Seaside Park’s narrow spit of land, a Coast Guard boat trolled the rough surf.

A year later, they have a long list of the places Julia Madsen isn’t.

But they are no closer to knowing where she is.

"We think everyone did a great job — but they accomplished nothing," said her husband, Ed Madsen.

On the anniversary of her June 25 disappearance, police have been canvassing summer vacationers anew, mindful that many Shore renters book the same week every year. They’ve handed flyers in an attempt to jog any year-old memories about the pretty woman in a pink top and white capri pants who seemingly vanished.

The family intends to hold a private memorial service tonight, a solemn celebration of the Clifton woman’s life. A short Mass will be dedicated to missing persons everywhere, said Guy Madsen, Julia’s son.

In addition, the family is increasing its reward to $50,000.

Julia — called "Julie" — and Ed had returned from grocery shopping when she said she was going for a walk on the beach. She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and headed out the side door around 7 p.m. Their son’s home, in which they were staying, is the second house in from the dunes.

Yet police never found a single person who saw her on the beach.

When she didn’t return, Ed — who walks with difficulty because of health problems — hobbled up the steps to the crest of the dune and shouted her name. Then he drove around the neighborhood looking for her before calling police.

His was initially a commonplace call; Ocean County has the highest percentage of elderly residents — 25 percent — of any New Jersey county.

Just last week, Berkeley Township police found the same man twice in a single day, aided by a GPS tracking anklet that Santoro describes as "a Lojack for humans." They were also recently summoned by an elderly woman who insisted her husband had disappeared — only to discover, 11 hours later, that she’d forgotten she’d left him at Wal-Mart.

When the Madsen call came in, police were also mindful that Julie had disappeared at sundown. Might she be "sundowning?"

That describes the tendency of Alzheimer’s symptoms to flare up around sundown. The precise reason isn’t fully understood, said John Heath, a specialist in geriatric medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. It might be related to reduced light, or it might reflect a build-up of the day’s stress.

"It’s often a confusional state, and one signifying a loss of identity," he said. "They may forget who they are, or who you are. It’s a scary sensation to wonder, ‘Who am I? Where am I? Or why am I?"

One symptom is "wandering," in which the dementia wanderer feels propelled to set out in search of something. "It’s as if the sense is, ‘I want to go find something — but I don’t know what it is that will make me feel whole,’" Heath said.

Often dementia patients are convinced a long-dead parent, sibling or friend is meeting them somewhere. Sometimes they voice these concerns with caregivers, who can redirect them by saying, "Your mother said you should wait here," for example.

But they may keep these thoughts to themselves, Heath said. "In many instances, the caregivers feel very guilty because they couldn’t read the mind of the person they love."

In Julie’s case, "We don’t really know what this woman was seeking when she went for her walk," he said. "It might be possible she thought her mother was calling, for instance."

She’d been diagnosed about 18 months earlier, after daughter Eileen Madsen Tummino in particular noticed her mother was forgetful and repeating herself. In addition, she’d sometimes get a glazed, far-off look in her eyes, said Guy Madsen, her son. "She didn’t have the brilliance in her eyes anymore," he said.

But she still recognized people and enjoyed life. She’d driven from Clifton to Rutherford to have her nails done the previous week, and had just completed a whirlwind week of celebrations: Her 50th wedding anniversary, her birthday, and Father’s Day. Earlier that week she and Ed had visited Atlantic City, where she happily played the slots on her own while he was on the main casino floor.

Santoro consulted Julie’s two doctors that first night and learned her illness was considered in the moderate range. He also requested Clifton police swing by her home to see if she’d somehow gotten a ride there. (Alzheimer’s retirees have been known to show up at former homes they left decades ago.)

In hindsight, Ed says he now realizes a recent quirk of hers was in fact another symptom of Alzheimer’s: Instead of replacing the caps of toothpaste or salad dressing, she’d simply throw the caps out. And when she returned dishes to the cabinet or food to the refrigerator, she’d pick a random location. They bickered about it; he’d express annoyance, she’d say "What difference does it make?"

But she never wandered off, never got lost either driving or on foot.

"I had no reason not to let her go for a walk," her husband said.

In days immediately after she vanished, firefighters conducted a "grid search" on foot of the 3,000-acre Island Beach State Park, their efforts augmented by dogs and ATVs. The volunteer group Texas Equusearch spent a week flying drone-mounted cameras over the terrain.

Police consulted security footage from local merchants — turning up nothing — and went house-to-house peering in utility sheds, outdoor shower stalls, and under porch stoops.

To this day her family remains slightly defensive, stung by the initial depiction of Julie as an Alzheimer’s "patient." For who would let an Alzheimer’s "patient" walk alone on the beach?

With so little known about her disappearance, Alzheimer’s might have had everything to do with it — or nothing to do with it.

A year later, her husband, son and daughter have handled her absence in different ways. Ed doesn’t like to talk about it, and when he does, tears up quickly. By contrast, Guy values continued publicity about her case. Eileen, who always watched cable TV crime shows, gravitated almost immediately to psychics. One in particular said her mother encountered the wrong types and was strangled, her body thrown in a commercial trash container. Police searched those, but Eileen frets that the trail was already cold.

Guy doesn’t put much stock in psychics, but he, too, now feels his mother met with some kind of foul play. Ed prefers to think of her as a drowning victim instead of a crime victim.

Santoro said police have ruled nothing out, except that family members are not suspects. The Atlantic Ocean looms as a natural culprit, for there have been rare cases in which a drowning victim’s body never emerges. The Coast Guard told police the strong currents that week could’ve produced a rogue wave; a body could’ve ended anywhere from New York Harbor to Delaware.

This week police also resent the initial missing-persons bulletin reminding police, hospitals, jails and other institutions that Julie Madsen remains missing.

At this stage, however, no one holds out much hope she’s alive.

The family’s memorial service will be held on the dune near her intended walk — an irony given her expressed desire that she be cremated and her ashes spread on the beach, Guy said.

It’s a fitting location to mark her departure, he said: "She has left us from the very place that she loved so much."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/missing_ocean_county_woman_mystery.html
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« Reply #34 on: June 29, 2010, 01:40:17 PM »


Video at link:

http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=254732&position=1&news_type=news


Memorial held for woman missing from Jersey Shore
(06/26/10) SEASIDE PARK - Relatives and friends gathered last night to honor 72-year-old Julia Madison, who vanished from the beach in Seaside Park during the summer of 2009.
On the anniversary of her disappearance, dozens of her family members and friends gathered to say goodbye. They say the vigil is providing closure after a year of mystery.

Family members say that there has been no physical evidence of Madison's disappearance.

The Ocean County prosecutor's office is still treating Madison's disappearance as a missing person's case.





 
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« Reply #35 on: June 29, 2010, 05:34:55 PM »

This case is very sad 2NJ 
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« Reply #36 on: September 16, 2010, 01:12:53 PM »

Oh yes, the "sundown syndrome" -- it is so real with people with closed head brain injuries, depression, dementia, etc.
I keep checking . . . hoping Julie is found.  But I am afraid she may have heard "someone" calling her from the water . . . only God knows, literally.
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« Reply #37 on: June 24, 2014, 10:25:26 PM »

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/24/5-years-later-womans-disappearance-still-a-mystery/11339379/
5 years later, woman's disappearance still a mystery
June 24, 2014

ERKELEY, N.J. -- On a warm, summer evening five years ago, Julia "Julie'' Madsen gave her husband of 50 years a kiss, told him she loved him, and then she left their son's summer home in South Seaside Park to take a stroll on the beach.

She hasn't been seen since.

For her grieving family, it's as if the 72-year-old grandmother literally walked off into the sunset, never to be seen or heard from again.

In the weeks that followed, search parties of hundreds would walk the beach, go door-to-door on the barrier peninsula and comb through the vegetation in the wilderness of Island Beach State Park, looking for the woman who was last seen wearing a pink shirt and white pants. But even with the assistance of tracking dogs, helicopters, boats and drones, there was no trace of Julia Madsen on land or in the sea.

"I thought after Hurricane Sandy, if she was over there, she'd be discovered," said Berkeley Detective Joseph Santoro, who has been looking for Madsen for five years. "That storm washed out everything.''

But five years later, investigators are no closer to finding Madsen than they were the night she went missing.

"My nephew said it best — she kind of walked off into the sunset," said Guy Madsen, 52, of Clifton, the missing woman's son.

Now, with virtually no hope that Julia Madsen still could be alive, her family plans to attend a Mass for her soul Wednesday at St. Catharine of Siena Church in Seaside Park to mark the fifth anniversary of her disappearance, Guy Madsen said. And, the family's attorney is filing papers to have Julia declared dead, he said.

While that may bring Julia's relatives a little bit of closure, they still are tormented by the disappearance.
 
Relatives say Julia was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

The Mass is scheduled for 7 p.m., which is the approximate time Julia Madsen walked out the door on Thursday, June 25, 2009, Guy Madsen said.

First, she told her husband, Edward, she was going for a walk on the beach.

"She kissed me. We said, 'I love you,' like we always did, and then she took a walk," Edward Madsen said.
 
On June 21, the family celebrated Julia's 72nd birthday and Father's Day before heading down the Shore to spend a week alone at Guy Madsen's summer home More festivities were anticipated for Edward's 74th birthday on June 26 but they never came to fruition.

"It used to be the happiest place in the world for me," Edward Madsen said of the Shore house. "June used to be the happiest month. Now it's like the plague."

When Julia didn't return from her walk by 8:20 p.m. on June 25, Edward went outside to look for her, first in the backyard, by the swimming pool and then up to the beach. When he didn't find her, he got in his car and began driving around, he said. Just before 9 p.m., he called the police.

That night, a Thursday, there were several police officers searching the streets and the beach, Santoro said. By the next morning, a command post was set up and the search was expanded to include more officers, canines and a helicopter, he said.

"We had probably 15 to 20 police officers combing the streets from South Seaside Park to Seaside Heights, checking for her," Santoro said.

By Saturday, the effort expanded further, with investigators from the State Police, firefighters from throughout Ocean County and a volunteer search-and-rescue team with members from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania going door-to-door, checking backyards, garages, sheds and outdoor showers. They checked out area motels for suspicious persons and known sex offenders.

State Police combed the beach on horseback. With assistance from the Coast Guard, they searched the ocean and the bay by helicopter and boat.

Investigators initially thought Julia Madsen went in the water, but her family told them she wasn't one to go swimming, Santoro said. Plus, she was fully clothed and her body never washed up, he said.

Reverse 911 calls seeking information on a missing woman with the onset of dementia brought a tip that Julia Madsen was spotted on foot in Brick, but that didn't pan out, Santoro said.

Meanwhile, Guy and Edward Madsen endured a battery of tests to rule them out as suspects, the detective said.

About a week later, the search effort was still going strong. Teams fanned out all over Island Beach State Park, searching its 8 1/2 miles of thick vegetation sector-by-sector, to no avail, Santoro said.

"By six weeks, we were pretty much done," Santoro said.

About six months after Julia Madsen's disappearance, police received an anonymous call from someone who reported frequently seeing someone matching her description in Newark.

"We located the woman, who looked remarkably like Mrs. Madsen," Santoro said. "She was living in a homeless shelter. It wasn't her."

With the anniversary of her mother's disappearance, Eileen Tummino says she plans to consult a psychic, as she does every year, because it gives her some solace. Even though she admits what one psychic told her — that her mother was murdered and stuffed in a trash bin — was not exactly comforting.

"Not knowing is so hard, and it eats at you like a cancer," she said.

Guy Madsen believes his mother stumbled onto something she shouldn't have and met with foul play.

"There was an amazing outpouring from many but we never got the results you would expect," he said. "That only leads me to believe she was already off that island against her will."

Santoro thinks someone would have seen something, if that was the case.

"I think about it every day," he said. "That's a very secluded, small island with one roadway in and one roadway out and no one saw anything. It just doesn't make any sense."
 
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« Reply #38 on: June 24, 2014, 10:32:00 PM »

http://www.app.com/story/news/local/toms-river-area/berkeley/2014/06/24/happened-julia-madsen/11326465/
Unsolved mystery: What happened to Julia Madsen?
June 24, 2014

 
State Police combed the beach on horseback. With assistance from the Coast Guard, they searched the ocean and the bay by helicopter and boat.

Investigators initially thought Julia Madsen went in the water, but her family would tell them she wasn't one to go swimming, Santoro said. Plus, she was fully clothed, and, her body never washed up, he said.

"There were some drownings in '09, and a day or two or three days later, their bodies washed up," the detective said. "The ocean always spits people back."

Reverse 911 calls seeking information on a missing woman with the onset of dementia brought a tip that Julia Madsen was spotted on foot in Brick, but that didn't pan out, Santoro said.

Meanwhile, Guy Sr. and Edward Madsen endured a battery of tests to rule them out as suspects, the detective said. Eileen Tummino was never subjected to the tests because she was so distraught over her mother's disappearance, he said.

About a week later, the search effort was still going strong. Teams fanned out all over Island Beach State Park, searching its 8½ miles of thick vegetation sector-by-sector, to no avail, Santoro said. The hundreds of volunteers were assisted by two members of Texas Equusearch, a volunteer group that was involved in the search for Natalee Holloway in Aruba. They flew a drone plane that photographed and videotaped the area of Island Beach State Park with equipment that could zero in on the colors that Julia Madsen was wearing, but the colors of pink and white didn't show up.

"By six weeks, we were pretty much done,'' Santoro said. "We'd run down every lead. We didn't have anything.''

Since Julia Madsen literally walked out of the house with the clothes on her back and the jewelry on her hands, detectives had no credit cards records they could trace or a cellular phone to track, he said. The jewelry has never surfaced, either.

About six months after Julia Madsen's disappearance, police received an anonymous call from someone who reported frequently seeing someone matching her description in Newark.

"We located the woman, who looked remarkably like Mrs. Madsen,'' Santoro said. "She was living in a homeless shelter. It wasn't her. She had been there for a couple years.''

On the first anniversary of Julia Madsen's disappearance, investigators handed out pamphlets to returning vacationers seeking information, but received nothing useful. Her family has offered a $50,000 reward, but that, too, has gleaned no clues.

There have been a few false alarms. Some bones uncovered in Seaside Park in the summer of 2012 turned out not to be human, according to Santoro. An elderly woman's body found in a wooded area in North Jersey about six months ago turned out to be that of an Asian, he said. Julia Madsen's DNA and dental records, meanwhile, are in a national database, in the event some sign of her does turn up, he said.
 

Julia Madsen has been missing since June 25, 2009. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt, white pants, brown, leather shoes, a silver watch on her right wrist and a gold and silver bracelet on her left wrist. She was 5-feet-6-inches tall and 175 pounds, and had red hair, blue eyes and moles on her cheeks. Anyone who may know something about her disappearance is asked to call Berkeley Detective Joseph Santoro at (732)341-1132, ext. 120 or the Berkeley Township Police Department's main number, 732-341-6600. The missing woman's family has offered a $50,000 reward for information that leads them to what happened to her.
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« Reply #39 on: June 24, 2014, 10:34:34 PM »

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/usatoday/article/11339379


Julia Madsen is shown in this photo displayed outside the family's home in South Seaside Park shortly after she disappeared in 2009. / Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, family photo
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