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News never stops. Neither do we. Support NJ.com Hudson Public's help sought in solving 1994 Jersey City triple murder Updated: Mar. 02, 2016, 7:02 p.m.|Published: Mar. 02, 2016, 6:02 p.m. facebook twitter By Michaelangelo Conte | The Jersey Journal watermans.jpg Photos from a reward poster asking for information that could lead to arrests in the murder of, from left, Barbara Waterman, Bianca Wilson and Felicia Council. (HCPO image) (EJA) JERSEY CITY -- The Jersey City triple-murder of a woman, her daughter and another young girl has remained unsolved for more than two decades -- and for the family, the wound remains unhealed. "I hope the Prosecutor's Office is still investigating the case and reviewing the evidence because it is still unsolved," Jersey City Councilwoman-at-Large Joyce Watterman said today of the Feb. 7, 1994 murders of her sister-in-law Barbara Waterman, 28; Waterman's daughter Bianca Wilson, 4, and Felicia Council, 14. Watterman, who spells her last name differently than Barbara, said "fresh eyes" on a cold case can make a difference, and noted that "technology has changed." But the councilwoman declined to say more because the murders remain a source of great pain for the family. On Feb. 7, 1994, Barbara Waterman, 28; her daughter Bianca and Felicia were shot to death Waterman's Woodward Street apartment in the Lafayette Gardens public housing complex. Lafayette Gardens has since been transformed into a low-density community. "Unsolved cases are routinely reviewed by our most experienced investigators, often employing the use of new technology and advances in forensic sciences," Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. "These cases are never forgotten by the Prosecutor's Office." The first episode of the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's "Hudson County Cold Case" last February featured the unsolved murder and provided additional information on the investigation. (The segment, which features Capt. Keith Stith, begins at around the 21:30 mark in the video below). While discussing the case with the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office Chief of Detectives Gene Rubino, Stith said Waterman's live-in boyfriend came home at around 5 p.m. on the day of the murders and found the three victims. "There was no forced entry. Whoever let the suspect inside the apartment knew the suspect because their was no forced entry at all," Stith said. "Or the suspect had a key to the apartment." "Unfortunately we only received one tip. At that time there was a $10,000 reward and only one person actually provided us with a tip," Stith added. But the trail eventually went cold and no arrests were ever made. The fact that the Lafayette Gardens housing complex no longer exists also compounds the difficulty of solving the case. Anyone with information on the murders is asked to call the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Unit at 201-915-1345. College was not talked about like a important piece to the puzzle of success, No, college was not my parents success story, my pops stopped his education by the 6th grade being the oldest child of 15 other siblings a job was more important than pursuing furthering his education and also my mother education went further and she received a high school diploma but also was faced with being the oldest of 20 siblings and college was not part of the plan but having a job was the end goal. Now of my siblings pursued the college life but we discussed college as important but financially it was not forseable so jobs or a trade was our go to discussion as siblings.

When you read to article please realize I was the babysitter before going to college because Barbara is my first cousin and her daughter bionca is her daughter which also makes bionca my first. Now imagine if I didn’t have a basketball scholarship to the university of Oregon that summer of 1994. Barbara is my father sister daughter and we called her missy. Now just visualize me not going to college and replacing the babysitter the summer of 1994 because I was actually the babysitter for my cousin the summer of 1994 before going to college on a basketball scholarship but if paying for college was the option than being the babysitter would’ve have been my source of income