Murder of Cissy Stuart
| Murder of Cissy Stuart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Historical Borough of Princeton, New Jersey; Stuart's house is near the center of the map. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 40°20′49″N 74°39′52″W / 40.3470°N 74.6644°W 34 Mercer Street Princeton, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | April 2, 1989 Bet. 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. (EDT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attack type | Stabbing (homicide) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | 2-inch (5.1 cm) knife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths | 1 (Cissy Stuart) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coroner | Raafat Ahmad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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On April 2, 1989, 74-year-old American newspaper owner Emily "Cissy" Stuart was stabbed to death in her home in the borough of Princeton, New Jersey.[1] Her fully clothed body was discovered two days later in her locked basement with no signs of a struggle, and nothing was missing from the house. The Mercer County medical examiner found five stab wounds on her back. No motive for her killing has been determined[2] and the perpetrators were never identified. As of December 2024[update], the murder remained unsolved.
The case was the subject of a documentary directed by her son Charles Stuart called My Mother's Murder (1992) which aired on the HBO documentary series America Undercover.
Background
[edit]Emily "Cissy" and Donald C. Stuart Jr. were a prominent couple from the borough of Princeton, New Jersey.[3] Cissy Stuart was born Emily K. Cowenhoven in New Brunswick to Emily and Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven Jr., a lawyer.[2][4][5] One of her town's most well-known residents,[2] she was descended from Wolfert Gerritse van Couwenhoven—one of the first pioneers of New Netherland and the founder of New Amersfoort (present-day Flatlands, Brooklyn, New York)[5][6]—and Nicasius de Sille, a founder of New Utrecht who served as First Councillor and schout-fiscal to Peter Stuyvesant.[5][7] Stuart moved with her family to Princeton when she was 11,[2] later attending Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut,[8] Miss Fine's School in Princeton,[2][8] and Bryn Mawr College[9] before graduating from Wellesley College in 1937.[2][8][9] She soon went to work at the Princeton Herald,[2] where her future husband, a Princeton University graduate, was editor-in-chief.[8] The couple were married in 1939,[4][8] and in 1946 they founded Town Topics, their own local weekly newspaper, together with Mary and Dan Coyle, Stuart's sister and brother-in-law.[9][10] In 1953 the couple moved into a white Victorian house at 34 Mercer Street.[2][9] They had two sons—Donald C. "Jeb" III and Charles, a television producer for ABC News[1][2][9]—and four grandchildren.[3] The couple was divorced by 1968,[1] and Stuart's ex-husband remarried.[11] He died of cancer in 1981, after which time Jeb took over as editor-in-chief of Town Topics.[2][9][12] Jeb's wife Sheila managed the business side of the newspaper,[3] while Stuart pursued other endeavors such as acting; she took on roles such as Mary Poppins and the wicked witch in local theater, and delighted passersby in front of her house on Halloween by wearing her witch hat while raking leaves.[2][9]
Stuart was a feisty and opinionated woman who did not hesitate to speak her mind. She was known to invite into her home door-to-door solicitors who offered religious books, if only for the opportunity to present the counternarrative. Despite the fact that she had an old money background, Stuart was in the habit of doing her own household chores such as splitting firewood, shoveling snow, and repairing things around the house.[3] A longtime member of the Stony Brook Garden Club of Princeton,[2] Stuart devotedly tended to the roses, monkshoods and daffodils she grew in her yard (referring to the latter as her "Mr. Einsteins"; the famous physicist used to live down the street).[2][13] She was fond of sprinkling California poppy seeds around town where she thought some color was needed, and would even trim trees in the public domain and pick up litter as she came across it on her regular walks around town.[2]
Murder
[edit]Stuart began her final day of Sunday, April 2, 1989 by attending services at Trinity Church, which was right across the street from her house.[2][3] At 9:00 a.m. she had breakfast in her home with her sister, Margaretta Cowenhoven. A little over an hour later, Stuart announced that she was going to do some gardening, at which point her sister left the house. At half past noon, Stuart's friend Doris Mellinger dropped by.[3] Stuart often drank alcoholic beverages such as beer and bourbon with her guests,[3][9] and on this occasion the two enjoyed Bloody Marys; Mellinger left the house at 1:15 p.m. Police initially assumed that Mellinger was the last person to see Stuart alive; but at around 4:30 p.m. (or not long thereafter) Stuart was outside gardening again when she saw Elias "Bloxy" Baker—a local businessowner—driving by on the way to his lumberyard, and she waved to him.[3]
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At 1:20 p.m. the next day, Jeb made the two-minute walk from the Town Topics offices at 4 Mercer Street to his mother's house for his daily lunch with her, which she usually prepared for him. He used his own key to enter through the front door, walked into the kitchen, and noticed that the side door leading to a back porch was ajar, the storm door was left unlocked,[3][9] and her copy of The New York Times was thrown down on the porch;[3] his mother was nowhere to be seen. Jeb found all of this to be incongruous, but reasoned that on occasion she was known to leave the door unlocked on her way out.[9] After checking upstairs,[3][9] he next unlocked the interior hallway door which led down to the basement, opened the light and called out to his mother, with no response.[3] After not finding her in the yard, Jeb noticed that the padlock on the door leading from the yard to the basement was locked.[3][9] He thought this was odd, since his mother normally left that door unlocked in order to allow herself easy access to her gardening tools in the basement; she would usually simply slip the shackle into the latch and turn the lock body to make the door appear to be locked, but without actually clicking the lock shut.[1][3] Jeb later told investigators that having found the basement locked from both sides, he became convinced that no further checking in that space was necessary; on other occasions, he said he had a feeling that day that his mother might be in the basement, that something might have happened to her—such as a medical emergency—and that he couldn't bring himself to descend to the bottom of the staircase:[3]
Your first thought is, 'Gee, maybe she had a heart attack'. That's the first thing that goes through your mind with somebody that age. At that point you're not thinking somebody murdered your mother. This is Princeton, not some high-crime area.[9]
After making himself a sandwich and eating it, Jeb locked the side door behind him and went back to work. At 3:30 p.m., Sheila entered the house using her husband's key in order to attempt a search for Stuart, but soon she also returned to the office. The couple returned again to the house at 6:30 p.m., and this time in the living room Sheila found Stuart's coat, and her purse was found on the floor, which appeared to be intact and not disturbed in any way.[3] Jeb called the hospital[9] and the police to ask if they heard anything from his mother, but they had not. The latter offered to send over a patrol car, which he refused, and the couple returned home to nearby Hopewell Township after leaving the light on for Stuart. After making a few calls to acquaintances, all they managed to learn about was Cowenhoven's Sunday breakfast meeting with Stuart. Sheila returned to the house at 9:00 p.m. to check the property, and Jeb continued to call the house until 1:30 a.m.[3]
Stuart's maid arrived as usual on Tuesday morning a little after 9:00 a.m. for her weekly house cleaning chores, and found that Cowenhoven, Jeb and Sheila had arrived at the house a half hour earlier. The family informed the maid that although Stuart was missing, she should proceed to do her chores as usual, and then Jeb walked over to the Town Topics offices. Stuart's doctor called the house at 10:30 a.m. to say she missed her appointment, so Sheila walked over to the office to inform Jeb,[3] and together they walked over to the Princeton Police Department to officially report Stuart missing.[3][9] They arrived there at 10:38 a.m., where they met with police sergeant Anthony V. Federico. In the meantime, Cowenhoven and the maid decided to do their own search of the house. At 10:50 a.m., they unlocked the hallway door which led down to the basement using the skeleton key which was still in the keyhole.[3] Utilizing what she later described as "nerves of steel",[14] Cowenhoven descended the wooden staircase, where they saw Stuart's body lying on the basement floor at the bottom of the stairs, and—too frightened to approach the body themselves—they called the police.[1][3][9] At that moment, Jeb and Sheila were standing with Federico in the lobby at police headquarters; upon hearing the news, they got in the car and in one minute they were at the house, where Federico found the victim on the basement floor. She was lying face down slightly on her right side with her arms beneath her chest and her eyeglasses still clutched firmly in her right hand.[3] She was found fully dressed[3][9] in her gardening clothes, which consisted of a beige cardigan sweater on top of another sweater, Lee jeans and blue plimsolls. There was blood on her back, and her Seiko watch—which showed the correct time—was still on her left wrist.[3] No weapons were found,[9][15] and Stuart's gardening tools were still well organized in their proper places.[15] Stuart was buried in nearby Rocky Hill.[3]
Investigation
[edit]In the immediate aftermath of the discovery of the body, Princeton police chief Michael Carnevale assigned five detectives to work the case.[2] Stuart was found lying on top of an outstretched electrical wire connected to an overhead porcelain light fixture, and this initially led detectives to believe that she had been electrocuted. But after the body was examined in the basement by Mercer County medical examiner Raafat Ahmad, it was determined that Stuart had been stabbed to death, and that this had occurred on April 2nd sometime between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m., the latter time corresponding to sunset. Jeb was standing in the kitchen with a police captain when they heard another officer's voice calling up from the basement, announcing that Stuart's death was apparently a homicide; at that, Jeb exclaimed "Well, of course it is!"[3]
The Mercer County prosecutor, Paul T. Koenig Jr., said five stab wounds—made by a 2-inch (5.1 cm) knife, possibly a pocket knife—were found on her back between the shoulder blades. Investigators determined that there was no clear sign of a struggle,[2] which pointed to the possibility that Stuart was familiar with her killer, as she might have felt comfortable turning her back to the perpetrator.[3] She was also hard of hearing, which led a friend to speculate that Stuart did not hear her attacker approaching her from behind.[2] The stab wounds being almost horizontal indicated that the killer may have been standing by her side.[3] Police and others have stated that the basement door having been padlocked suggested that the killer must have been familiar with Stuart and her house.[1] The perpetrator was careful to avoid leaving fingerprints on the lock.[11]
The day after the discovery of the body, police did a walk-through of the house with Jeb and others to see if they noticed anything amiss. Everything was found to be in order, and even Stuart's wallet—which contained $3.42—lay undisturbed on the kitchen table, along with the keys to her 1965 Chevrolet Malibu and another pair of eyeglasses.[3][9]
Later that same year, a spate of knife-related assaults in Princeton led to the conviction and sentencing of Gerald Geffrard, a 22-year-old Haitian man, to 20 years' imprisonment.[1][16] The police did not reveal at the time whether or not they considered Geffrard to be a possible suspect in the Stuart case;[1] however, his involvement has since been ruled out.[15] In 1992, then-police chief Thomas Michaud[a] said that the department had a long list of possible suspects, which included family members and neighbors, and that names on the list were slowly being eliminated.[16] Geffrard died in prison in 2004, and Jeb died of prostate cancer in 2008.[3]
Stuart's murder was one of only three similar crimes which occurred in Princeton during the 22 years prior;[2] as of December 2024[update], it was still the last one recorded in town since then.[3] The family had initially offered $25,000 for any information leading to the identity of the perpetrators (later raised to $50,000)[1] but police returned the reward money to the family in the 1990s. Federico eventually rose in rank to become police chief, and he transferred the case over to Nick Sutter, a detective. In 2003, the former enlisted the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation through their office in Trenton and their Violent Crimes Task Force. Federico died in 2009 and Sutter was elevated to chief, and in 2019 the latter transferred the case over to Darwin "Bill" Kieffer, a detective.[15] As of December 2024[update], the case had yet to be solved.[3]
In popular culture
[edit]Charles Stuart directed a documentary about the case called My Mother's Murder (1992) which aired on the HBO documentary series America Undercover.[1] Gloria Emerson, a journalist for The New York Times and neighbor of Cissy Stuart who was interviewed for the film, noted that many of Stuart's neighbors refused to talk about the murder,[19] while others placed the blame with members of the family.[1][16][19]
See also
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Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 King, Susan. (June 14, 1992) "Charles Stuart: When Mom is Murdered". Los Angeles Times. Archived April 6, 2019, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 29, 2026. (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Watterson, Kathryn. (July 2, 1989) "A Life Taken, a Town's Illusion Lost". The New York Times. Retrieved July 1, 2026. (subscription required) "What is shocking is not just how it happened, but that it happened at all in the broad daylight of a sunny Sunday afternoon on a peaceful tree-lined street where Albert Einstein used to live. ... On April 2, after going to church and out to lunch with a friend, 74-year-old Emily Cowenhoven Stuart, a pillar of old Princeton society and an energetic woman whom her minister called 'utterly fearless and totally open', was killed in the shadows of her basement at 34 Mercer Street. Mrs. Stuart, known as Cissy, was one of Princeton's best-known residents. A former actress who had played the lead in Mary Poppins and the Wicked Witch in Beauty and the Beast in local theater, she was often seen striding up Nassau Street past Princeton University, less than five minutes from her home. ... But the horticulturalist would not live to see the blooms of her Mr. Einsteins (daffodils), her Emily rose or the tall blue flowers of her monkshood. ... According to the Mercer County Prosecutor, Paul T. Koenig Jr., an autopsy showed that she had died quickly from shock and massive internal bleeding caused by multiple stab wounds between the shoulder blades. There was no sign of a struggle and no apparent motive for the crime. ... 'I grew up in Princeton,' said Angeline Austin, a close friend of Mrs. Stuart and fellow member of the Stony Brook Garden Club for 25 years. ... Charles Stuart, a television producer who lives with his family in Cambridge, Mass. Doris Mellinger, a friend of Mrs. Stuart for more than 50 years, said: 'Nobody knows, but we all felt she was surprised by whoever did it. She was getting quite deaf, and she was feisty enough to have stood up to the person if she had a chance to see him, which means she would have been stabbed in the chest'. ... Princeton Borough Police Chief, Michael Carnevale, says that there is 'nothing to report' and that no suspects have been apprehended, although he has assigned all five detectives of his 32-member police force to the investigation. ... Stuart, who was born in New Brunswick and moved here in 1926 when she was 11 years old. She attended Miss Fine's School, now part of the Princeton Day School. When she graduated from Wellesley College in 1937, she came back to Princeton and worked at The Princeton Herald with her future husband, Donald C. Stuart Jr., a Princeton University graduate. In 1946, Mrs. Stuart, with her husband, sister and brother-in-law, founded Town Topics, a local weekly newspaper that is now edited and published by her older son, Donald C. Stuart 3d. Mrs. Stuart's husband, from whom she was divorced in 1967, died of cancer in 1981. ... When she saw that a tree owned by the town needed trimming, she grabbed her shears and trimmed it. ... Stuart also delighted in sprinkling seeds of the Eschscholzia californica (California poppy) in improbable places so that the bright orange flower would please and surprise those who saw it. At Halloween she raked leaves in her front yard, wearing a large witch's hat. ... Walking down the street, she would stop and pick up trash."
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Shea, Kevin. (December 17, 2024) "Who Killed the Grand Dame of Princeton? Join Our Investigation". NJ.com. Iselin, New Jersey. Archived December 20, 2024, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 29, 2026. (subscription required)
- 1 2 (August 6, 1939) "Princeton Girl is Married to Donald Stuart – Miss Emily Cowenhoven Wed Yesterday at Trinity Church". The Times. Trenton, New Jersey. Retrieved July 21, 2026. (subscription required) "Miss Emily K. Cowenhoven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Cowenhoven Jr., of Lafayette Road, West Princeton, and Donald Clive Stuart, Jr., son of Professor Donald Clive Stuart, of Princeton University, were married yesterday afternoon."
- 1 2 3 Scannell, John J., ed. (1919) Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide 1919-1920. Vol. 2. Paterson, New Jersey. self-published. p. 99. Retrieved July 21, 2026. "Children [of Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven]: Charles Tiebout, Jr., counselor-at-law, and a member of the firm Convers & Kirlin, in New York City, who married Emily Kearney Rodgers, of New York ... Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven—Lawyer, ex-Judge and ex-Prosecutor of the Pleas—is a descendant of one of the earliest and distinguished Colonial families of America. The founder of the family was Wolfert Gerritsen Van Cowenhoven, who came from Holland in 1630, and founded the colony of New Amersfoot on Long Island. ... Another ancestor, Nicasius de Sille, was one of the Nine Selectmen in the Council of Governor Stuyvesant; also a 'Schepen' and mentioned in the list of 'Great Citizens' of New York, in the year 1657."
- ↑ Bergen, Teunis G. (1876). The Bergen Family, or, the Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, One of the Early Settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L. I., With Notes on the Genealogy of Some of the Branches of the Cowenhoven, Voorhees, Eldert, Stoothoof, Cortelyou, Stryker, Suydam, Lott, Wyckoff, Barkeloo, Lefferts, Martense, Hubbard, Van Brunt, Vanderbilt, Vanderveer, Van Nuyse, and Other Long Island Families. Joel Munsell. Albany, New York. p. 327. Retrieved July 21, 2026. "... Wolfert Gerretsen Van Couwenhoven, the common ancestor of the Cowenhoven, Kouwenhoven or Conover family in this country, who emigrated from Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht, in Holland, in 1630 ... On the 16th of June, 1636, Wolfert Gerretsen and Andries Hudden bought of the Indians and obtained from Gov. Van Twiller, on the 6th of June, 1637, a patent for the westernmost of the three flats on Long Island ... The settlement was at first named New Amersfoort, in honor of the place of Wolfert's nativity, was afterwards commonly known as the Baai or Bay, and since as Flatlands."
- ↑ Mathews, Catharine T. R. (1903). "The de Sille Family of Holland". The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. 34. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society: 24–28.
Nicasius de Sille, b. Arnheim 23 Sept., 1610. Was Advocate to the Court of Holland; Captain in the service of the States General; was afterwards first High Council, a Fiscal (Eersten Hoogen Raad en Fiscal) in New Netherlands; m. Cornelia Meulmans, dau. of Peter Meulmans and Anna Marschalk. Their children were ... Gerardina de Sille, b. at Amsterdam 19 Feb., 1642; m. with Johannes van Couvenhoven.
- 1 2 3 4 5 (May 22, 1939) "Troths Announced of Two Sisters". ProQuest 103030514 The New York Times. Retrieved July 6, 2026. (subscription required) "Miss Emily Cowenhoven attended Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Conn., and Miss Fine's School here and was graduated in 1937 from Wellesley College. Mr. Stuart ... is a member of the Quadrangle Club, graduate secretary of his class and editor of The Princeton Herald. ... Miss Emily Cowenhoven and Mr. Stuart will be married in August."
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 LeDuc, Daniel. (April 26, 1989) "Murder Casts a Pall On Princeton: Townspeople Now Talk of Locks, Alarms and Safety". ProQuest 1834317208 The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved July 9, 2026. (subscription required) "After [Stuart] attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she returned to her home and her neighbors. In 1946, with her husband, Donald C. Stuart, and sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Dan Coyle, Stuart founded Town Topics, the family newspaper. Its offices are now in a red, brick Victorian building fronting Nassau Street, only a two-minute walk from the house at 34 Mercer St. ... After Donald Stuart's death, Jeb Stuart became editor and publisher of Town Topics. Charles, who now lives in Cambridge, Mass., was a producer for ABC News and now makes documentaries for public television. After years of working for the paper, Emily Stuart turned to theater and was active in community troupes, wielding an umbrella as the high-flying Mary Poppins and playing the wicked witch in Sleeping Beauty. ... And on Halloween, she raked leaves wearing a witch's cap. .... Jeb Stuart said that on the following Monday he walked down the street from his office to have lunch with his mother. He found the back door ajar and her glasses and car keys inside. It was unusual, he said, but not unheard of. His mother often misplaced her glasses or ran off without locking the door. And she always walked, taking her 1965 Chevrolet Malibu from the garage only when going out of town. He checked the first floor of the house. The doors to the cellar were locked. Nothing appeared amiss. 'Your first thought is, 'Gee, maybe she had a heart attack'. That's the first thing that goes through your mind with somebody that age', he said last week. 'At that point you're not thinking somebody murdered your mother. This is Princeton, not some high-crime area'. He left the house and that night tried calling his mother. When she didn't answer, he called the hospital, but there was no report of her there. On Tuesday morning, he walked across the street from his office to borough hall to file a missing-persons report with the police. About the same time, Emily Stuart's sister, Margaretta Cowenhoven, went to the house and found the body. Stuart had not been molested and was still fully clothed, police said. They found no weapon."
- ↑ Papers of Princeton – Town Topics. Princeton University Library. Retrieved July 3, 2026.
- 1 2 Mann, Virginia. (June 16, 1992) "In Princeton, a Haunting Crime". ProQuest 3193369668 The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. Retrieved July 6, 2026. (subscription required) "... someone waiting in the darkness attacked her from behind with a knife, stabbed her in the back five times, then locked the door, leaving no fingerprints—not even a fiber—as clues. ... she wore her wedding ring even after her husband remarried; indeed, even after he died."
- ↑ Rein, Richard K. (February 1, 2017) "Princeton Packet and Town Topics Duel in the Driveway". Community News. Allentown, New Jersey. Retrieved July 6, 2026.
- ↑ (April 3, 2012) "Anniversary for Princeton Slaying of Cissy Stuart". The Trentonian. Archived 2025-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 8, 2026. "No neighbors had seen anyone in the yard with her as she tended to her hybrid 'Emily' roses and daffodils she called 'Mr. Einsteins' because the famed scientist Albert Einstein had lived on the street during his Princeton years."
- ↑ Hastings, Deborah. (June 22, 1992) "Filmmaker Examines His Mother's Murder". Orange County Register. Santa Ana, California. Associated Press. p. F11. Retrieved July 5, 2026. (subscription required) "... [Charles] Stuart wonders how [Cowenhoven] can be so composed when it was she who found his mother's body. He asks her. She replies, 'Nerves of steel, Charlie. Nerves of steel'."
- 1 2 3 4 Shea, Kevin. (April 1, 2019) "Princeton University Students Suspected in 30-year-old, Unsolved Murder in the Ivy League Town, Law Enforcement Sources Say". NJ.com. Retrieved June 30, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Canellos, Peter S. (June 16, 1992) "A Mother, a Murder, a Movie – Filmmaker Charles C. Stuart Turns His Camera on His Mother's Unsolved Slaying". ProQuest 294706046 The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 8, 2026. (subscription required) "From street-corner whispers to the pages of a local tabloid, local people offered their views that [Charles] Stuart's mother had been killed by a family member. ... The Haitian, Gerald Geffrard, is now in prison for the shower attack. ... Edward Michaud, a longtime officer and detective who took over as chief of the department last year, explained in a recent interview that the investigation is very much alive, as police pursue a work-intensive strategy of checking and rechecking the alibis of a lengthy list of people who may have had the motive or opportunity to kill Emily Stuart—a list that inevitably includes family members and prominent neighbors. He declined to say whose names are on the list, and which of these quasi-suspects have been cleared. ... Michaud said. 'We have a large number of people, and we're eliminating them one by one.'"
- ↑ Pristin, Terry. (January 16, 1997) "Drug Arrests in Princeton". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2026. (subscription required) "Chief Thomas B. Michaud of the Princeton Borough Police ..."
- ↑ Levine, Jean. (July 29, 2001) "New Princeton Chief to Lead By Example". The Trentonian. Retrieved July 13, 2026. "... Duvall, a 44-year-old Hamilton Square resident who succeeded Thomas Michaud, a 35-year veteran of the police force who spent the last decade as police chief, on July 1."
- 1 2 Brennan, Patricia. (June 13, 1992) "Producer Makes His Mother's Death Matter". Cedar Rapids Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. p. 3T. Retrieved July 19, 2026. (subscription required) "Many townspeople did not want to discuss the murder, Emerson told [Charles] Stuart. Some preferred to think that he or his brother may have been involved, rather than admit that the killer could be a stranger who invaded their world."
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