Posted: Thursday,
July 19, 2012 5:30 am | Updated:
7:10 am, Thu Jul 19, 2012.
By Matt Chiappardi Staff writer |
Posted on July 19,
2012
PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP
— A day after crews pulled a body from Mirror
Lake, authorities are still trying
to figure out who the victim is and how he got there.
Authorities were able to determine that the body was male,
but have not been able to make any other identification Wednesday.
How the man died or ended up in the lake, which stretches
into Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, remained a mystery.
Police said they have no open homicide or missing-person
cases that might explain why the body showed up in the lake
Tuesday evening.
“It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack,” said Lt.
Ron Kreig, spokesman for the township Police Department.
The Burlington County Medical Examiner’s Office began
performing an autopsy Wednesday, but the results were not immediately
available.
The body was recovered Tuesday after two kayakers reported
seeing what they thought was a head in the lake near a dam by Lakehurst
Road about 8 p.m.,
police said.
But authorities soon realized it was an entire body floating
in the water. It had been there for some time.
The state of decomposition made a quick identification
impossible. Authorities were not even able to determine the gender Tuesday
night, police said.
They also could not figure out how long the body had been
there or where it came from.
The same questions remain for a different body found in the
woods in the township in June.
In that case, two motorcycle riders found the corpse along a
trail near Quail Run Road,
but police were not able to identify it because it was in “an advanced state of
decomposition.”
Authorities said Wednesday that the results of the autopsy
in that case are still pending.
If either incident is confirmed to be a homicide, it would
be the first this year in Burlington County.
It also would be the first in the township since 2009, when
a 28-year-old man was shot and killed outside the Pine Village Motel on Lakehurst
Road.
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PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP
— Authorities have been able to determine that the body recovered from Mirror
Lake on Tuesday was a man, but the
identity remained a mystery Wednesday.
How the man died and when he ended up in the lake that
stretches all the way into Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst was also not known
Wednesday.
That information may have to wait until an autopsy is
completed by the Burlington County Medical Examiner's Office, authorities said.
Two kayakers reported seeing what they thought was a head in
the lake near the dam by Lakehurst Road
about 8 p.m., police said.
When authorities got to the lake, they found it was an
entire body that had been in the water for some time.
The incident remained under investigation Wednesday by both
police and the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office.
This is the second decomposed body in as many months found
in the township.
On June 17, two motorcycle riders found a body along a trail
in the woods near Quail Run Road.
In that case too, authorities could not identify it because of the
decomposition.
A cause of death has not yet been released in that case, but
if either is confirmed to be a homicide it would be the first this year in Burlington
County.
It also would be the first in the township since 2009, when
a 28-year-old man was shot and killed outside of the Pine Village Motel on Lakehurst
Road.
Authorities ID body found in southern NJ lake
The Associated Press
Published: Saturday,
Jul. 21, 2012 - 12:19 pm
PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP, N.J.
-- Authorities have identified a body found in a southern New
Jersey lake this week
Pemberton Township
police say the death of Victor Miller isn't considered suspicious. But they
still aren't sure when the 37-year-old township resident died or how long he
had been in Mirror Lake before he was found Tuesday night by two kayakers.
The Burlington County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled
that Miller's death was an accidental drowning. They said there were no signs
of foul play.
Further details have not been disclosed.
PEMBERTON TWP. — A
body was found floating in Mirror Lake
just off Clubhouse Road by
a group of kayakers Tuesday night, police dispatch confirmed.
According preliminary reports, the unidentified body was
found about 8:30 p.m. The exact
location of the call was 170 Clubhouse Road.
Mirror Lake
is on the Rancocas Creek in Burlington
County and is used mostly for
recreational purposes. The lake, owned by Pemberton
Township, has a surface area of 215
acres. No additional information was released by police officials.
PEMBERTON TWP. —
Police here Friday said they have identified the body found in Mirror
Lake earlier this week as that of township
resident Victor Miller, 37.
Miller’s body was discovered Tuesday about 8 p.m. by two kayakers near the beach dock by North
Lakeshore Drive.
Police said foul play is not suspected in Miller’s death,
which was ruled an accidental drowning by the Burlington County Medical
Examiner’s Office.
Officials said they are still trying to determine when
Miller died and how long his body had been in the water before it was
discovered.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident
to call (609) 894-3308, or the confidential tip line at (609) 894-3352.
