Skull Found on Bucks County Riverbank in 1986 ID'd as Missing NJ Man

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The skull, discovered on the banks of the Delaware River in Bucks County, was found to have belonged to a New Jersey man who went missing in 1984

Authorities say a skull found on banks of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania more than 3 1/2 decades ago has been identified as that of a man long believed slain in New Jersey along with his girlfriend, whose body had been found in the river on the New Jersey side the previous year.

District Attorney Matt Weintraub said Alt and his girlfriend were suspected homicide victims in New Jersey. The death of Laurie Suydam, who was found in the river in Trenton in April 1985, is considered an unsolved homicide while Alt's case has been a missing person's case, a Mercer County prosecutor's office spokesperson said Monday.

Weintraub expressed gratitude for technical expertise provided for free by Texas-based Othram Inc., which used forensic genome sequencing and forensic genetic genealogy to identify the skull found by a fisherman in June 1986 on the banks of the river by the Morrisville Boat Ram.

 

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