NJ Home In Foreclosure Goes Up In Flames; Owner Goes Missing

In Cape May County, New Jersey, the Press of Atlantic City reports:

• A State Police helicopter on Thursday searched the woods around Steelmantown for a man missing since his house burned to its foundation Feb. 9. Richard Jargowsky Jr., 46, disappeared after the early morning fire, when a neighbor saw Jargowsky walking in the opposite direction of his Homestead Road home with an unidentified stranger. [...] The fire, which destroyed the two-story home, remains under investigation. Ulbrich said Jargowsky might be the only one who can say what happened. The house was under foreclosure. But Jargowsky reportedly had an agreement of sale that would have prevented a scheduled Cape May County sheriff's sale.

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