{"id":97190,"date":"2020-10-25T01:04:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephanie-parze-case-turns-to-suspected-killers-parents\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T01:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T22:04:58","slug":"stephanie-parze-case-turns-to-suspected-killers-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephanie-parze-case-turns-to-suspected-killers-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephanie Parze case turns to suspected killer’s parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stephanie Parze case turns to suspected killer’s parents<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n In the year since her daughter Stephanie was killed by an abusive boyfriend, Sharlene Parze has been haunted by the close bond they shared.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did everything together \u2014 holidays, vacations, day trip<\/a>s, just going out to dinner, movies<\/a>,\u201d said the mother, who finds <\/span>reminders of her daughter everywhere, never knowing when one will trigger despair.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we just have a hole,\u201d Sharlene Parze, 53, said through tears in an interview from her Freehold, NJ, home Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all you ever think about, your mind never shuts off \u2014 reliving what she was thinking when it was happ<\/a>ening, trying to see her face, not being able to hold her, kiss her or hug her ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the first anniversary of the disappearance and death of the 25-year-old New Jersey makeup artist approaches, her distraught parents hold on to one final hope for securing answers about what happened to their daughter on the night of Oct. 30, 2019.<\/p>\n

Robbed of closure by the suicide of Parze\u2019s suspected killer, John Ozbilgen, Parze\u2019s family \u2014 and Monmouth County prosecutors \u2014 are now honing in on what Ozbilgen told his parents before he died.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the truth to come out,\u201d Sharlene Parze said.<\/p>\n

Her husband, Ed Parze, 55, added, \u201cHow can they defend their son when they know he committed this crime? Man up, do the right thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what they find, it will not bring Stephanie back. It will give us more of an understanding, if they do know anything. I hate to think this happened, and they covered it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"About
About 200 volunteers searching a field in New Jersey Stephanie Parze last year.<\/span>Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Parzes never heard from their daughter again after she left their house on Halloween eve,\u00a0 following a night out with her mother and sisters to visit a New Brunswick psychic. She sent her mom a Snapchat message while driving back to her own home nearby, but calls and texts the next morning went unanswered.<\/p>\n

The family immedia<\/a>tely suspected Parze\u2019s on-and-off-again boyfriend, Ozbilgen, a 29-year-old stockbroker who had recently moved from Staten Island to suburban Freehold Township. He had been charged with attacking Parze and a second woman between June and October, 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minute we couldn\u2019t find her, I said, \u2018Where is he?’\u201d Ed Parze recalled. \u201cThose were the first words out of my mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ozbilgen admitted he spent the night at Parze\u2019s on Oct. 30, and claimed she was alive when he left the next morning.<\/p>\n

But he remained the principal person of interest as thousands of volunteers scoured woodlands from Freehold Township to Staten Island in the next few months searching for Stephanie\u2019s body. In November, cops arrested Ozbilgen on child porn charges, after finding images in his phone, while continuing to try to squeeze him for a confession.<\/p>\n

But Ozbilgen never copped to the murder. And as investigators circled, their prime suspect hanged himself his parent\u2019s garage on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n

He left behind at least two notes, which hinted at homicide but never disclosed the whereabouts of Stephanie\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dug myself in a deep hole. This is the only choice,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Her remains were finally discovered three months later, in the weeds just off the shoulder of Highway 9 about 10 miles north of Freehold in Old Bridge, NJ. They were too decomposed for authorities to determine how she was killed, her parents said.<\/p>\n

While the Ozbilgens have maintained their son\u2019s innocence, and their own, authorities insist he didn\u2019t take all of his secrets to the grave.<\/p>\n

\"John
John Ozbilgen arrives in State Superior Court in Freehold on November 19, 2019.<\/span>Thomas P. Costello\/Asbury Park P<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prosecutors \u201cbelieve there were texts between them [Ozbilgen and his parents] after he killed her. They believe he confessed to his parents early on,\u201d said a law enforcement source.<\/p>\n

Hakan and Cynthia Ozbilgen are now the subject of an evidence-tampering investigation, the source said. Prosecutors have also discussed hindering prosecution and obstruction of justice charges.<\/p>\n

Authorities suspect the two may have deleted messages exchanged with their son \u2014 possibly crucial evidence \u2014 shortly after Parze was reported missing, the source said. Authorities also believe they withheld one of the suicide notes their son wrote, according to the source, and they refuse to turn over their cellphone passwords so their devices can be searched.<\/p>\n

Hakan Ozbilgen, 55, admitted withholding the passwords in an interview with The Post Friday. He blames law enforcement for his son\u2019s death and is not in a cooperative mood.<\/p>\n

\"John
John Ozbilgen and Stephanie Parze<\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe reason why my son took his life is not because he did something to this poor girl, it\u2019s because he was charged with child pornography. He couldn\u2019t handle it,\u201d Hakan Ozbilgen seethed. \u201cI\u2019m so angry at them, that\u2019s why I\u2019m talking like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say they made the disturbing discovery of 10 images of young girls and babies being abused on Ozbilgen\u2019s cellphone while they were scanning the device for clues on Parze. They arrested him Nov. 8, 2019, on the charge of possession of child pornography, and he spent the next 11 days in jail. He killed himself three days after his release on bail.<\/p>\n

Hakan Ozbilgen believes the charges were false and meant to pressure his son.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why I can\u2019t stand the prosecutor. They would leave him in the [cell], nine days by himself, and then every morning they would have a female guard go in and she would say, \u2018John, do you see how many charges they got against you today?\u2019 They were using this female officer, and what they really wanted him to do was they wanted him to go like insane on her . . . so they could say he has some kind of bias against women, and it\u2019s not true. It\u2019s not true,\u201d the father said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys are the murderers,\u201d Ozbilgen said, referring to prosecutors. \u201cMy son had nothing to do with her disappearance. Prosecutors lied through their teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ozbilgen\u2019s father even explains away some of the most incriminating clues linking his son to Parze\u2019s disappearance \u2014 his suicide notes and 10 expletive-laden text messages he sent to Parze, including one calling her a \u201cf\u2013king c\u2013t, the night before she died.<\/p>\n

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A missing person flyer of Stephanie.<\/span>Gregory P. Mango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He claims his son had reason to be upset because Parze \u201cwas involved with five or six other guys.\u201d He then quickly added, \u201cThere are a couple things I know that I won\u2019t say, because I don\u2019t want to make her look bad. She\u2019s not here, my son is not here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The father said his son was a gentleman, not the raging misogynist he is made out to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son dated a lot of girls. \u2026 There would be a lot more girls out there saying something about him. My son was 6\u2019 4, he was gorgeous, he had brown hair, green eyes, when I walked in the mall with him, girls would turn around and stare at him. He was a beautiful kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

But one ex did complain \u2014 telling the Asbury Park Press that Ozbilgen would choke her during sex and arguments, sometimes until she passed out.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors believe Stephanie may have died during \u201crough sex\u201d with Ozbilgen, the law enforcement source said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis parents were well aware of his battering of women and his need for rough sex, and so when he got himself in trouble, he would just go to his parents to get him out of jail,\u201d the source said. \u201cIt would make sense if he killed her in the middle of rough sex. It would make sense he called his father and said he killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile prosecutors\u2019 stalemate with the Ozbilgens continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an open investigation into [the Ozbilgens] own actions, into hindering and obstruction in the aftermath during the investigation by the state,\u201d Monmouth County assistant prosecutor Caitlin Sidley said last month, the Asbury Park Press reported.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors declined to answer questions from The Post, citing an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

The Parzes are well-known in their Freehold community through their four daughters, Ed\u2019s work as a volunteer EMT and limo-company owner, and their over-the-top Christmas light display on their home along Route 33.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always had people at our house, that was our thing,\u201d Sharlene recalled about their girls, who range in age from 14 to 23, seemingly always having friends over.<\/p>\n

Cynthia Ozbilgen, a cosmetologist, and husband Hakan, an MTA bus driver, both originally from Brooklyn, moved to Freehold Township in 2018 after raising their sons in Rossville, Staten Island.<\/p>\n

\"Sharlene
Sharlene and Edward Parze<\/span>J.C.Rice<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just three months after Stephanie and John met, Parze accused Ozbilgen of assaulting her. But Ozbilgen always seemed to find a way to lure Parze \u2014 who \u201clooked for the best in everybody,\u201d according to her father \u2014 back in.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Parze, who was just 4-foot-11 and 115 pounds, grew to fear her hulking boyfriend, Ed Parze said, and became withdrawn from her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo days before, I said to her, \u2018I really feel like you\u2019re going MIA on us, you\u2019re not coming over, you\u2019re not calling,\u201d Sharlene Parze said.<\/p>\n

The tragedy \u2014 and all they\u2019ve learned about domestic violence since \u2014 has inspired the Parzes to start a nonprofit they hope to use to help other victims of abuse and their families, the Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just don\u2019t want anyone to forget her,\u201d Sharlene Parze said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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