SNP FOUNDATION GIVES BACK VIA NJ STATE POLICE
/SNP FOUNDATION GIVES BACK VIA NJ STATE POLICE
Stephanie Nicole Parze was a beautiful, caring, 25-year old woman from Freehold, NJ.
She was a student athlete, a talented artist and a compassionate, loyal friend to everyone she met. Her natural-born talent as an artist brought her much joy as a make-up artist. She also loved children and enjoyed spending time on the beach, on the river or on the ocean.
During the summer of 2019, Stephanie met and became involved with someone new. During this time, she had been extremely sick, and he was very attentive to her. What started out as an apparently caring relationship soon turned violent. After enduring physical, sexual and emotional abuse during their on-and-off-again relationship, Stephanie disappeared the night of October 30, 2019. After 87 days of searching by a countless number of family, friends, community members and law enforcement, her body was found on January 26, 2020.
Stephanie’s fate, while tragic, created an overwhelming desire to develop a unique organization that would bridge the gap in services for people in domestic violence, sexual abuse and missing person’s situations. That is why the Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation was created - to prevent future domestic violence relationships from ending this way. The Foundation aims to provide quality, compassionate and nonjudgmental services to all who need it.
By way of giving back and assisting law enforcement in bringing closure to other families of missing persons, the Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation is donating funds of $12,649.00 for a Police K-9 to the NJ State Police as well as additional funding for a portable dental X-ray machine to the Forensic and Technical Services Section to assist with identification.
The Blue Magazine was recently invited and was in attendance at the NJ State Police HQ in Trenton for a special donation ceremony. Introduced at the ceremony were Trooper Tyler Straube and K-9 Sparze. Prior to becoming a trooper, Trooper Straube was in the U.S. Marine Corps with multiple combat deployments to Afghanistan.
Straube and Sparze are being trained to track live people and to detect human remains (cadaver). Sparze will not be trained to apprehend (bite) criminal suspects. Trooper Straube and Sparze have a long training pipeline ahead of them.
The current training teaches them obedience and how track odor. They are reported to both be performing well in training to date. They are going to graduate the week after the donation ceremony. In March 2024, Straube and Sparze will then begin a 14-week human remains detection training course that will conclude in June 2024.
Straube and Sparze will be fully operational for the NJSP in June 2024. The cadaver detection K-9 teams will also be sent to advance training hosted by the FBI. There are four levels of advanced training, each lasting one week, that take several years to complete. The length of time is due to infrequent class scheduling. Once they complete that training, Straube and Sparze will be used by the FBI to search for human remains across the Mid-Atlantic region of the country.
The Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation’s mission is to provide education, intervention and support to families and individuals dealing with domestic violence, sexual abuse and missing loved ones as well as training to learn how to deal with these situations and setting up response teams for missing persons throughout the community. More information can be found at https://www.snpfoundation.org
The Blue Magazine on behalf of law enforcement, the NJ State Police and countless families salutes the Stephanie Nicole Parze Foundation for their generosity and willingness to provide enhanced tools to help locate and identify those needing to be found.
