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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in New Jersey. At Drug Rehab New Jersey we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in New Jersey, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in New Jersey. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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New Jersey: When Dad's a dealerMILLVILLE, New Jersey -- Gilbert Stites never wore jeans.
He preferred Armani suits and patent leather shoes. He drove $40,000 cars and gambled at Atlantic City casinos. He craved money and power, while living up to his nickname, "The Boss," given to him by South New Jersey drug dealers.
His seemingly glamorous life in the mid-1980s veiled a man who sold drugs, abused his children and killed a rival drug dealer, according to Stites' stepdaughter, Cheryl Veach.
Veach and her half-sister, Melissa Wolf, haven't gone public with the truth behind one of Cumberland County's most infamous crimes until now.
The women will tell their story on "Montel" at 2 p.m. Thursday on NBC Channel 10.
It's a cathartic step to help younger family members understand the past, according to Veach, a 39-year-old mother of four daughters and soon-to-be grandmother of three.
"I need to get rid of it, get it out," Veach said this week in a home she shares with her boyfriend, Butch Parent, on West Buckshutem Road. "We've always been scared to talk about it because of our father. We have to get it through our heads he's dead and ain't gonna hurt us now."
Wolf wants to set the record straight for her family's sake.
"The most important thing is my kids -- I don't want to be gone and them not know the whole truth," said Wolf, a 36-year-old married mother of two from Laurel Lake.
Veach was a year old when she became Stites' stepdaughter, after he married her mother, Geraldine. Together they raised three daughters, including Wolf, and two sons, with a plan -- a plan to live richly by selling drugs, sometimes with help from the children.
Although Veach's other siblings do not want the half-sisters to share their stories, Veach said, "I firmly believe that was the case."
An unusual childhood
Gilbert worked as a self-employed painter while Geraldine depended on welfare for income early in the marriage, Veach said.
But life was far from normal.
Stites, whose first crime was stealing a car in 1948, often took the children to Atlantic City to watch the famous diving horse at the Steel Pier.
Bad memories outweigh the good, however. According to Veach, she was molested at age 11, and Stites' volcanic temper once left her with three broken ribs and a broken nose.
"Dad was very mean; heartless," Wolf said.
Her mother, Geraldine, also was abusive and abused.
"I can't count the number of times my mom was carried away in an ambulance," Veach said. "We were scared of him."
Neighborhood kids weren't allowed to play at their house, because other parents knew what the Stites were doing.
Their children didn't.
That changed in 1981, when, at 17 years old, Veach, who had run away, returned from a four-year absence wandering the country to show them her husband and first daughter.
"(Gilbert) called me up to the bedroom and showed me bags of Christmas Trees and Pink Hearts -- speed pills he ordered from High Times magazine. He ordered them by the hundreds, and he had bags of pot, too," she said.
"Here's my new money scheme," Stites told her. "What do you think?"
Testing drugs for dad
By 1983, Veach had an ex-husband, a second daughter and a drug addiction.
"He wanted my ex-husband to first help do the business with him, and that's what we did," she said. "Dad was taking me to Philly to try stuff out."
Stites ordered his stepdaughter to test the purity of methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin and cocaine in big cities such as New York. Veach said she never saw her father use drugs; he often wore gloves when handling them because he didn't want to get high.
The prevalence of drugs would hook Wolf as well.
Veach helped her father run drugs between Millville and Bridgeton, using some of the money for bills and some for limousine rides to Atlantic City.
"You get caught up in it," Veach said. "There was no saying no. That was our lifestyle. You did what Dad said to do, point blank."
Shots ring out
Gilbert Stites shot 36-year-old Gregory Galiyano twice in the chest at point-blank range around 4 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1985.
Veach, 22 at the time, was sleeping on the living room floor at 18 Court Blvd. in Millville with her ex-husband and her children after a party for a family friend when the shots rang out.
Hours earlier, Veach said she heard her mother and stepfather talking in the basement about posting bail to release Galiyano from Cumberland County Jail. Veach added there were no plans to kill Galiyano. She said her stepfather wanted just to talk to him.
But Stites and Galiyano were selling drugs in the same cities, and Galiyano owed Stites close to $25,000.
Stites also liked to carry guns -- often three at a time. He reached across a kitchen table to shoot Galiyano twice.
"I took the kids into a bedroom and told them to stay before they found out or saw what was going on," Veach said.
She returned to find Galiyano lying on the kitchen floor.
"I said, 'Who is that, Dad? Oh my God!' And he said it was Greg. Then he said, 'Now look what the son of a b---- made me do,'" Veach said.
Stites shot Galiyano nine more times in the chest and head in a fit of anger.
Worried other family members would be shot, Veach calmed Stites down. Then she took .25- and .38-caliber pistols from Stites' hands, wiped off the prints and shoved the guns in a paper bag.
Knowing that Veach's ex-husband and her brother were going fishing the next morning, Stites ordered them to toss the guns in the Delaware Bay.
Veach's ex-husband also wrapped Galiyano's body in a blue tarpaulin and stuck his head and limbs through tires so that his corpse would sink to the bottom of Leamings Mill Pond.
They had to dispose of the evidence quickly. It was nearing daylight, and the family planned to entertain 100 people at a Labor Day party with smiles, food and entertainment, Veach said.
"We had to carry on so that no one would know what happened," she said.
Protecting her father
Veach, her ex-husband, children and Wolf fled the state in late 1985 for four months after lying to a grand jury in an effort to protect Stites, who soon became the main suspect in Galiyano's death.
Investigators discovered the lie when Wolf told her boyfriend, who was equipped with a wire, about the murder.
Meanwhile, a drug bust closed Stites' operation.
Wolf and Veach's family made it to Florida. They returned to Millville when Stites was arrested in the drug bust and police convinced him to tell the truth about the murder, even though he claimed it was done in self-defense.
Stites also told Veach to admit the truth because neither daughter saw the initial shooting. He had hoped their testimony would not conflict with his self-defense claim.
But Stites was convicted in 1986 of murdering Galiyano and planning a second killing. He was sentenced to 27 years in Trenton State Prison, but died in 1989 of Lou Gehrig's disease.
The sisters did not receive jail time for perjury, but Veach served eight months in jail for taking orders from her father to have her ex-husband kill Wolf's boyfriend in Kentucky. The plan failed after Veach testified against her father and ex-husband, who was convicted on conspiracy charges.
Their mother passed away in 1999.
"My mom and I were very best friends and close until the day she died," Wolf said. "I just wished she would have faced more of the wrong in her part in this. Since I've become a mom and protect my kids, I understand how we should have been protected and should have been living."
'People still talk'
Today the sisters are coming to grips with their pasts.
Their "Montel" appearance was taped in June in New York after Veach responded to a call looking for guests who had suffered crimes at the hands of family members. Their story should take up the entire show.
"The production team was very interested in the story of how this family was so divided by crime," said Linda Lipman, a spokesperson for "Montel."
The sisters also would like to write a book about their lives to separate fact from fiction.
"People still talk. I hear it all the time," said Veach, who suffered two failed marriages and still sees a therapist. "I did what I had to do because of the circumstances."
"This will help us a lot," Wolf said about the show. "We work and are productive community people, but still live that life every day of our lives. I want a happy, healthy ending in life."
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