OCTOBER 26, 2015, 10:56 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015, 5:53 AM
BY MONSY ALVARADO
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Mary Greff was a new mother who had plans to pursue a career in psychiatry and possibly work one day with criminals. She had a zest for life and was the light of her parents’ eyes, her mother recalled Monday.
But her parents, Carol Ann and Leon Greff, found her dead in their house in Waldwick, allegedly a victim of domestic violence by her estranged boyfriend.
“We found her dead in her bedroom, two days after she turned 23,” Carol Ann Greff recalled on Monday, the first time she has spoken publicly about the slaying of her only child two years ago, at a candlelight vigil for domestic violence victims. “It was astounding, I never would think that someone would do this. … It’s so terrible to find your own baby in her bed.”
Last week the couple was reminded about the pervasiveness and tragedy of domestic violence when they read about 48-year-old Suzanne Bardzell, who died in her car outside her Midland Park home after being stabbed, allegedly by her estranged boyfriend.
“It’s really horrible, that it happened in these two neighborhoods,” said Leon Greff, who noted that the man accused of his daughter’s death is also from Midland Park. “You wouldn’t think that it could happen again.”
