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SOLVED: The Disturbing Case of Stephanie Parze

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

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What started as a missing persons case quickly turned into a tragic story of abuse, deception, and a chilling confession. Stephanie Parze, a vibrant young woman, vanished without a trace after a night out—only for investigators to uncover a dark and heartbreaking truth. What really happened to Stephanie? And how was justice finally served? Watch till the end to uncover the full story. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more true crime cases.

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Chapter 1: What happened to Stephanie Parze?

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Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. So the case that I have for you guys today is definitely a wild one. It's definitely one of the most wild cases that I've ever looked into and you will understand why in just a bit, but I do want to warn you that it does get pretty bad. You are going to get very frustrated and you will honestly want to throw up

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Chapter 2: What warning does the narrator give about the case?

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because I felt sick the entire time that I was researching, so I just wanted to put out a warning to you. If you're sensitive to more, I guess, graphic cases, then you might not want to watch this one. There's not a lot of violent details per se, but there's just a lot of information in this case that is just not pleasant to listen to whatsoever.

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Also, this is a very recent case, so there are still bits of information that are missing. but we do pretty much have everything that we need to know. I also want to try something new where I cut out some words, some of the more graphic words. I've seen some other YouTubers do it where they just kind of cut as soon as they say, you know,

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a certain word, but then you can still understand what I am saying. That way I won't get filtered through and automatically demonetized. I don't know if that will work, but I just wanted to try it for at least one video. So if there are random little times where the sound cuts out for just a second, that's why, and I just wanted to let you know.

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But with all of that being said, let's just get into today's case. Today, we are going to be discussing the case of Stephanie Pars. Stephanie Pars was only 25 years old when her life was selfishly ripped away from her. She was the oldest of four sisters and grew up with them and her parents, Charlene and Ed Pars, in Freehold Township, New Jersey.

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She was a part of a very close-knit family and even had grown up in the same house that her own mother was raised in. She and her family were pretty much always together and even when she was in her 20s, She loved hanging out with her parents and her sisters. When Stephanie was in high school, she played as Catcher on her school softball team.

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After graduating, she went to school for cosmetology and art. Eventually, after finishing up her schooling, she got a job as a waxing specialist at European Wax Center in Freehold Township

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as a makeup artist at la artistry in jackson new jersey now stephanie was small but feisty she was only 4 feet 11 inches tall but that did not stop her from having an attitude stephanie was described as being tough strong-willed hard-headed and stubborn yet funny, sweet, and welcoming.

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She was a natural leader who was tough, but she had an ability to just make everyone feel like they belong no matter who they were. She was so inspirational and always did her best to try and acknowledge everyone's accomplishments and make them feel good and special. She loved children and animals and cared for them so much.

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She loved art and makeup and was just so creative and talented at what she did. Now, on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019, Stephanie and her family went to a psychic medium in New Brunswick for a girls' night out. They got home to where her parents lived at around 10 p.m.

Chapter 3: Who was the last person to see Stephanie?

594.815 - 596.455 Police Dispatcher

So she didn't leave in her car?

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597.356 - 624.262 Charlene Parze

No, no. And apparently like her so-called ex-boyfriend, there's a domestic violence thing going on in court. And my one daughter reached out to him to see whether or not he had seen her. And he said that he saw her last night. He stayed there and she was getting ready for work this morning and has not heard from her since all that.

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625.535 - 626.936 Police Dispatcher

Okay.

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626.976 - 629.879 Charlene Parze

Charlene, what's a good phone number for you?

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629.979 - 632.181 Police Dispatcher

And her phone was left at her house or with you?

633.282 - 657.248 Charlene Parze

No, I left it at her house in case she came home. I put it on the charger because I know it's all day today when I checked it because I did find your device and her location was off. So then when I went back to the house again this evening, I did the find your device again, but then I tried to play sound, and it rang, and I found it on the side of the couch. Okay.

Chapter 4: What is known about John Osbligen's history?

657.868 - 660.829 Police Dispatcher

What is her ex-boyfriend's name, so there's a history of domestics?

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661.71 - 663.05 Charlene Parze

John Osbligen.

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663.13 - 664.791 Police Dispatcher

Do you know how to spell his last name, or?

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664.811 - 669.972 Charlene Parze

Yeah, O-Z-D-I-L-G-E-N. All right, ma'am.

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670.652 - 672.933 Police Dispatcher

Can I have a physical description of Stephanie?

674.314 - 690.273 Charlene Parze

She's 4'11". Um, she's probably like 115 pounds, brunette, like dark, you know, brown hair. Um, I would say mid, mid, like, you know, below her shoulder, past the shoulder, brown eyes. Um, she wears glasses a lot.

Chapter 5: What does the 911 call reveal about Stephanie's disappearance?

690.613 - 699.095 Police Dispatcher

And she, um, she wasn't saying anything about, you know, going somewhere, you know, over the weekend, like maybe going out for a Halloween thing.

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699.895 - 721.918 Charlene Parze

No. And she had, like, my daughter has no money right now. And she... Um, I started a job two weeks ago and they were told her that they were going to pay her at the end of the month. So she would have actually gotten her first paycheck either today or tomorrow. Yeah. Wouldn't miss work. You know, she's a nanny. She's taking care of a little girl and she's not a morning person.

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723.339 - 742.353 Charlene Parze

You know, so I was thinking, oh, maybe she overslept, you know, but she wasn't there when I was there twice, you know, and then I just had a friend go over there again. She's still not there. He even checked the backyard and the pool and everywhere and she's still not there. And I've reached out to friends and no one has heard from her.

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743.053 - 752.455 Police Dispatcher

Okay. All right, ma'am. We're going to have an officer come out there and talk to you. He's going to take a formal report and we'll see if we can contact her. Don was the last person to see her though, correct?

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753.415 - 767.29 Charlene Parze

John, John. John, okay. I called Verizon to see if there was any way I could get onto her phone. Because I think I know four of the numbers. She told me what the password was at one time, and I can't remember what it was.

767.71 - 768.15 Police Dispatcher

Okay.

768.17 - 790.257 Charlene Parze

But I couldn't get on. I called Verizon. They said the only thing you could do is do a factory reset, but that would delete a whole thing. But the funny thing is, like, if this guy John slept over last night and, like, she was getting ready for work, like, why would her phone be on the side of the couch? Right. Okay. Okay. instead of, like, in the bedroom where she gets ready.

790.277 - 802.506 Charlene Parze

She would only be sitting there if she was, like, sitting watching TV. Right. Yeah, I mean, so I don't, you know, whether he's just saying, like, he really slept over and has, you know, saw her this morning. Yeah, I don't know. Okay.

802.526 - 809.431 Police Dispatcher

I understand that you're upset right now. I would be, too. I have an officer that's going to come over, and they're going to talk to you.

Chapter 6: How quickly did the police act on the case?

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He knew that what he was saying and what he did looked very bad, but they hadn't found quite enough evidence to move forward with any murder charges. They searched these areas several times and really did a thorough job. and did not waste any resource in doing so.

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They just needed to find something to finally go forward with the charges to make sure that they could actually get these charges through and not have a very flimsy case. However, like I said, this case just keeps getting worse and police would never get the chance to charge John with anything. On November 22nd, less than a month after Stephanie went missing,

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John Osbogen's father found his 29-year-old son deceased in the garage of his parents' home after he had taken his own life by hanging. Police had actually been surveilling the home for quite a while and were stationed outside of the home already when his body was discovered, so his dad ran over to police to ask for help. but they could not revive him.

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And near his body, they found two notes that he had written. One was to his ex-girlfriend and the other was to his parents. So I will do my best to try and read these, but they are a little bit hard to read because the handwriting is kind of crazy. I also want to say that this one is incredibly upsetting, just like everything else in the case.

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The note to his ex-girlfriend reads, I love you so much, little lady. I miss you so much. I don't know what I was thinking when I effed up our relationship. You were the best thing that ever happened to me. I tried to move on many times. I will never for another lady feel the way I feel for you. Recently, I tried to reach out to you. You got a restraining order. Why?

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At the moment, I felt my entire world ended. I really needed you in a huge way.

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look at the mess i created don't believe everything in the news i hope you're doing well i hope you're having an amazing life you deserve it not a day goes by where i don't think about you and ben the girl in the news with me was such a piece of s she hurt me over and over when i was already at my lowest she was a horrible person please help my parents with my funeral you're the only person that i've ever loved

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Sorry for everything. I wish I could go back in time and correct my mistakes, but I can't. Frowny face." So let's quickly talk about this note. He sits there and his last ever thoughts are to gaslight his ex-girlfriend into making her feel guilty for not wanting to get back with a man who abused her physically and probably emotionally.

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He tried to guilt her into not being there for him when he was at his lowest, which was probably him referring to him killing his ex-girlfriend or the child but who knows. Then he asked that she help with his funeral when she clearly wanted nothing to do with him but now he's forcing her into an incredibly uncomfortable situation.

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