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🌱 New details emerge about police visits before Skillman deaths

Montgomery, New Jersey Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • New details emerge about police visits before Skillman deaths
  • Meet the women building careers in Montgomery policing
  • Skillman massage therapist faces charges after five women report assaults

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Today's riddle: did you know 10+10 = 11+11? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Cloudy, rain ending; breezy, with a high of 45 and low of 34 degrees.
  • Saturday: Mainly cloudy and breezy, temps: high: 47, low: 33.
  • Sunday: Partly sunny and breezy, with a high of 49 and low of 35 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Disturbing new details in Skillman murder (nj1015.com) — Montgomery police visited a Skillman home three times without entering before finding three family members dead on a fourth visit Oct. 2. Newly released details describe alarm calls and a neighbor’s wellness-check request. Investigators say David Grodnick killed his wife, Lori, and daughter, Sloane, before taking his own life.
   

• 11% of New Jersey Police Officers Are Women • Montgomery Has Fourhttps://www.themontynews.org/single-post/montynews (themontynews.org) — Four of Montgomery’s 37 sworn police officers are women, and one recently became the department’s first woman to serve in a specialized unit. Officer Carolyn LaRue’s move into traffic safety marks a milestone as the department works to recruit more women, though none has yet held a formal leadership position.
   

• Massage therapist arrested in Skillman on sexual assault charges involving five women (wchram.com) — Five women have accused a massage therapist working in Skillman of sexual assault or unwanted sexual contact during appointments, prosecutors say. Rayis Abdulkhaderkunju, 44, of Plainsboro, was arrested Sept. 24 after an investigation that began with a June complaint to Montgomery police. He was released pending trial and ordered not to contact his accusers.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "did you know 10+10 = 11+11?" — 10+10=20...11+11=20 too (Thank you Martin C. for sending it in!)
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