Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Arrest in murders of Englewood mother, child Arrest in murders of Englewood mother, child Arrest in murders of Englewood mother, child
Arrest in murders of Englewood mother, child YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia middle-school custodian stabbed his girlfriend dead, suffocated her 5-year-old daughter with a plastic bag because she saw the attack and then acted surprised when he joined a group of relatives in finding their bodies in the victims’ Englewood apartment, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Family members confronted Michael C. Brady, 34, of Teaneck, yesterday after not being able to reach 40-year-old Tam Marie “Tammy” Pitts-Gaddy, Molinelli said this afternoon in announcing Brady’s arrest on murder charges. As a result, Brady…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Luxury SUV sought in Ho-Ho-Kus pedestrian crash Luxury SUV sought in Ho-Ho-Kus pedestrian crash Luxury SUV sought in Ho-Ho-Kus pedestrian crash
Luxury SUV sought in Ho-Ho-Kus pedestrian crash ALERT: Ho-Ho-Kus police are looking for a brown Buick luxury SUV that struck a pedestrian walking home from the train station and then took off. The 30-year victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with an injury not considered life-threatening after the 6 p.m. crash Tuesday. It was dark and the road was slick when he was hit while crossing North Franklin Turnpike headed west on Warren Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus Detective Anthony Balistreri told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. If you have any information about the incident that could help police, please call Ho-Ho-Kus detectives:…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Dumont man convicted of murdering wife Dumont man convicted of murdering wife Dumont man convicted of murdering wife
Dumont man convicted of murdering wife YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors in Hackensack today convicted Peter Shanley of murdering his wife, Deborah, an hour after returning to the courtroom to ask questions during their deliberations. They had began deliberating at 9 this morning before the brief appearance in Superior Court Judge Edward Jerejian’s courtroom just after 2 o’clock. They returned with a verdict at 3:13. Shanley sat there motionless and expressionless as the foreman read the verdict of guilt on all three counts: murder, possession of a knife and possession of a club that prosecutors said he beat his wife with. Pete…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood PD seeks help in library theft Maywood PD seeks help in library theft Maywood PD seeks help in library theft
Maywood PD seeks help in library theft DO YOU KNOW THESE MEN? Maywood police are hoping someone helps them find two males who snatched a trio of laptops from the borough library. The two were caught on surveillance video walking out with three Dell laptops around 10:15 p.m. last Friday. Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call Maywood PD: (201) 845-8800 (Surveillance phot: Courtesy MAYWOOD PD)

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Oradell boy, 2, with eye cancer needs your help Oradell boy, 2, with eye cancer needs your help Oradell boy, 2, with eye cancer needs your help
Oradell boy, 2, with eye cancer needs your help #ForNico: The days leading up to this year’s Super Bowl are full of concern, not excitement, for the family of little Nico Santoli or Oradell, who turned 2 earlier this month and has a rare form of childhood eye cancer. The family has reason for hope, however, given that unilateral retinoblastoma has a high cure rate. But they are concerned for his sight — and the eye itself. Treatments are costly. And although many people have held benefits and contributed on their own, much more help is needed. Dom and his boy “I’m a true believer in the power of positive thinking and the energy you…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock drunk driver rode on rim after crash, police say Glen Rock drunk driver rode on rim after crash, police say Glen Rock drunk driver rode on rim after crash, police say
Glen Rock drunk driver rode on rim after crash, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A drunken Glen Rock teenager with a provisional license drove a minivan on one of its rims after being involved in a hit and run crash, said Fair Lawn police, who arrested him. William Colligan, 19, already was awaiting the outcome of charges that he had pot and alcohol in his car when Hawthorne police stopped hiim six months ago. Then, on Friday night, Fair Lawn police were called to the corner of Maple Avene and Cedar Street, where they found the minivan “partially off the roadway, facing south in the northbound lane of Maple Avenue, near the Knights of Columbus …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Person of interest in Englewood double homicide Person of interest in Englewood double homicide Person of interest in Englewood double homicide
Person of interest in Englewood double homicide YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators have been questioning a person of interest in the stabbing death of a 40-year-old Englewood woman and asphyxiation of her 5-year-old daughter, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. The bodies of Tammy Pitts Gaddy, 40, and her daughter, Natasia, were found this afternoon after a neighbor who heard people break into Gaddy’s apartment flagged down a uniformed officer on patrol. Police took five people in for questioning who were in the building at the time the bodies were found. However, they’d narrowe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Did Dumont man plan wife’s murder or was it passion? Did Dumont man plan wife’s murder or was it passion? Did Dumont man plan wife’s murder or was it passion?
Did Dumont man plan wife’s murder or was it passion? SPECIAL REPORT: Was Deborah Shanley’s death a cold-blooded, planned and calculated murder, or was it a crime of passion that happened during a violent dispute that she started when she slammed a lamp into her husband’s head? This is the question jurors were asked today to decide in the murder trial of Peter Shanley of Dumont. Peter Shanley killed his wife, defense attorney Brian Neary told them, but he “is not guilty of the crime of murder. “The act was committed in the course of passion, the result of provocation,” Neary said. “It didn’t have to happen – but sometimes the unforeseen cons…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Route 4 crash ties up highway Route 4 crash ties up highway Route 4 crash ties up highway
Route 4 crash ties up highway ONLY ON CVP: A crash involving a sedan and an SUV tied up traffic for hours on Route 4 in Teaneck this afternoon. The collision occurred in the eastbound lanes just before the exit to Queen Anne Road. No injuries were reported. Besides the backups past Hackensack into Paramus, rubberneckers in the westbound lanes slowed traffic toward Englewood. CLIFFVIEW PILOT contributed photos

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood woman, 40, stabbed dead, daughter, 4, strangled Englewood woman, 40, stabbed dead, daughter, 4, strangled Englewood woman, 40, stabbed dead, daughter, 4, strangled
Englewood woman, 40, stabbed dead, daughter, 4, strangled YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 40-year-old Englewood woman put up a struggle before she was stabbed to death by an intruder who asphyxiated her 5-year-old daughter in the basement, Police Chief Arthur O’Keefe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): Authorities have a person of interest in the stabbing death of a 40-year-old Englewood woman and asphyxiation of her 5-year-old daughter, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. READ MORE…. The Bergen County Medical Examiner was still at the scene as of 4:30, and the bodies r…

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