RUSHED PROBE IN 2015 LED TO UNSUPPORTED SUICIDE RULING

Tiffany Valiante was 18 when on July 12, 2015, she was struck by a New Jersey Transit, Atlantic City Rail Line (ACRL) train bound for Atlantic City from Philadelphia. Shocking to this day - more than 10 YEARS LATER -  is that police and the N.J. medical examiner, without conducting a complete investigation (a full autopsy was never conducted; a rape test kit never administered; her parents, years later, had to pay the cost to an independent lab to analyze what DNA evidence wasn't contaminated), almost immediately ruled Tiff took her own life. To them, it was case closed before her casket was ordered.

Several experts over the years agree without hesitation there was a rush to judgement that led to the rapid, unsupported Medical Examiner's Office ruling of death by suicide (independent forensic investigators lean towards homicide as the cause). The facts didn't add up in 2015 and they don't to this day.  That is why there's a public plea to  the new NJ Attorney Acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and her  Criminal Division (800-277-2427) to order the case reopened. Classifying Tiffany’s death a suicide was in itself an injustice.

Tiffany's family and friends refuse to write her death off as an unsolved mystery, let alone give up the fight. They'll persist until there's  #JusticeForTiffany.  Here’s one  recent news report on the continuing legal battle for justice and full transparency.