 The cases had occurred in the mid-1960s and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office had declined to pursue the cases at the time.In 1976, reporter M. A. Farber of "The New York Times" wrote a series of articles that exposed the cases, with the public attention and outcry leading the Bergen County Prosecutor to reopen the cases, exhume and test the bodies for curare, and file charges against Dr. Jascalevich after the muscle relaxant was found by chemical analysis.Attorney Raymond A.