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Sharon Thor
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Somerset
State: New Jersey
County: Somerset County
Date of birth: October 28, 1966
Date of death: October 26, 1982
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Race: Hispanic/Latino
Cause of death: Blunt Force
Anniversary month: October
LEA: Franklin Township Police Department
Case Description
On Oct. 26, 1982 Sharon Thor rushed outside her Franklin, NJ home and climbed into the passenger side of a vehicle after receiving a phone call from someone she apparently knew. She told her mother that she would be right back, because they were scheduled to leave soon for Sharon’s weekly ballet class in Bound Brook. Sharon never returned home. Three days after her disappearance, Sharon’s body was found in a wooded area off a dirt road not far from the family's John E. Busch Avenue home. An autopsy revealed she had been dead since around 6:30 p.m. the day she disappeared. She died just days before her 16th birthday.
Anyone with information concerning Sharon Thor's murder is asked to call the Franklin Township Police Department at (732) 873-5533 ext 2006. To remain anonymous and possibly be eligible for a reward, call the TIPS hotline at (732) 873-7277.
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