Murder of Long Island mom solved 52 years later

Eric Waldman brushed the snow away from his mother’s headstone at Beth Moses Cemetery in West Babylon as his brother, Larry Waldman, and sister, Marla Waldman Conn, stood nearby. “Hey, mom, miss you, love you, wish you were here,” he said. “And they found your murderer.” “It’s over,” Marla said. “So rest peacefully,” Larry said. Someone murdered their mother, Barbara Waldman, in their Oceanside home in 1974. The crime remained unsolved until late last year, when the Nassau County Police Department told the family that they closed the case after identifying a suspect, who had died in 2004. Police publicly confirmed the information, naming the suspect as Thomas Generazio, an Oceanside sanitation worker who was 57 when he died of cancer. More information on this cold case: https://www.nwsd.li/5f7b9d #newyork #coldcase #truecrimecommunity Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3jLQjUN Subscribe to Newsday.com: newsday.com/socialoffer ~ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA ~ @newsday on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. @newsday.tv on TikTok.