CAMDEN COUNTY, N.J. (KYW Newsradio) — A New Jersey man is being charged with first-degree murder for the death of a woman who went missing at the end of June 2013.
After 10 years, investigators believe they have solved the case of Carol Reiff’s murder. Police have taken into custody Joseph Grisoff, a former maintenance worker at the apartment complex where she lived.
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He is charged with first-degree murder. Investigators say his DNA is tied to items found inside Reiff’s apartment.
Reiff, 59, was an avid runner, a grandmother and mother, who missed a trip to the beach with her family. That’s when they called the police and reported her missing.
Police searched for her. Reiff’s car was parked in its spot. She was last seen walking into her apartment at Lakeview Apartments, in Blackwood, N.J. She was not there, but her keys were, and the door was locked.
A few days later, her body was found in a wooded area behind a maintenance shed at the complex.
Gloucester Twp. police said, during the initial investigation, they interviewed 59-year-old Grisoff, a maintenance worker at the apartment complex at the time. He said he had seen Reiff around the complex and had complimented her in the past, but he said he had never been inside her apartment.
But investigators say the evidence says otherwise. Using new DNA technology, investigators recently retested a pair of Reiff’s pants and a beer bottle found inside the apartment. Grisoff’s DNA was on both.
Grisoff was arrested in Moorestown. He has a prior conviction of sexual battery from the ’90s and, according to court records, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Reiff’s daughter said news of the arrest was shocking, but it has brought her such relief.
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