Drizzle Fog/Mist 45°
Tag:

New Jersey medical examiner

News
UPDATE: Body Found In Passaic River Tentatively ID'd, Probe Begun, Following Police Chase UPDATE: Body Found In Passaic River Tentatively ID'd, Probe Begun, Following Police Chase
Update: Body Found In Passaic River Tentatively ID'd, Probe Begun, Following Police Chase UPDATE: Authorities on Thursday tentatively identified a man whose body was recovered from the Passaic River following a police chase. They also officially acknowledged that the incident was being investigated. The announcement follows a story by Daily Voice exploring the circumstances that led to the death of Thadius Wilder, a 35-year-old father of five from Passaic whose body apparently was in the water for two days before it was discovered. Wilder’s body was removed from the river below Route 21 after kayakers spotted it around 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, City of Passaic Police Chief Luis Guz…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Family Notified: Body In Paterson Brook Is Missing Prospect Park Man, 26 Family Notified: Body In Paterson Brook Is Missing Prospect Park Man, 26
Family Notified: Body In Paterson Brook Is Missing Prospect Park Man, 26 PROSPECT PARK, N.J. -- A body pulled from the Passaic River on Tuesday was positively identified as a Prospect Park man who'd been missing more than a month. Now investigators are trying to determine what happened to him. Paterson police notified the family of 26-year-old Jorge Alcalde-Alfaro that it was him after an autopsy by a New Jersey Medical Examiner on Wednesday, investigators said. The key identifiers: tattoos and a gold tooth. Alcalde-Alfaro had signs of head trauma, but the medical examiner couldn't officially declare his death a homicide without further investigation by Paterso…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco