Delayed justice

    More than three decades after five New Jersey teenagers disappeared, two men are headed to trial for their murders.

    It was 33 years ago when the five teens went missing, and a break in the case two years ago has led to the impending trial of their killers, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors allege the two men forced the teens into an abandoned building and set it on fire following a dispute over drugs.

     

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