Couple Found Dead in Car

New Jersey couple found dead in car were all smiles night of disappearance: Witness

Melissa Pereira, 25, and Jorge Rodriguez, 24, planned to spend New Year’s Eve at a bed-and-breakfast in Pennsylvania together.

Mystery still surrounds the case of the young New Jersey couple who were found dead in a garage Sunday, but new details are emerging.

Melissa Pereira, 25, and Jorge Rodriguez, 24, parked in the garage at the Wayne Village apartment complex and closed the door, perhaps for a little privacy, about 11 p.m. on Dec. 27, witness Nicole Trifari said.

Police knew to look in the garage after a wireless phone company figured out the location of Pereira's cell.

Melissa Pereira, 25, tweets about her planned vacation with Jorge Rodriguez, 24, shortly before their disappearance.

The couple exhibited no signs of physical trauma that would indicate they were murdered, according to Michael DeMarco, a chief assistant at the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office.

"Detectives could not estimate how long the bodies have been inside of the garage," DeMarco said in a release.

Family members say the young couple had a reservation at the Cherry Valley Manor, a bed-and-breakfast in Stroudsburg, Pa., for New Year's Eve. Pereira's family owns the garage and rents it out for storage, her uncle said.

The medical examiner in Newark conducted an autopsy on Monday but is still awaiting the results of a toxicology test.

Source-nydailynews.com