A 37-year-old male was arrested on July 10 after transporting a 39-year-old female’s body near Cinnaminson Township.
Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Cinnaminson Township Director of Public Safety Michael P. King announced that a Delran man was arrested on July 10 for transporting a woman’s body to a wooded area after she died while they were together early last week in Cinnaminson
A 37-year-old male, of Haines Mill Road in Delran, was charged with one count of Desecrating Human Remains (Second Degree). He was lodged in the Burlington County Jail pending a detention hearing in Superior Court.
The investigation revealed that the male and the decedent went to the Hallmark Inn on Route 130 South on the afternoon of July 3. A 39-year-old female of Edgewater Park, died of what an autopsy later determined to be a brain hemorrhage.
When the male realized the victim was dead, instead of contacting authorities, he placed her body in his vehicle and drove approximately three blocks before leaving her in a wooded area near Pennsauken and Calhoun streets. He then moved her car close to the area where he had placed the body. The female’s vehicle was spotted two days later by a Cinnaminson police officer on patrol. The vehicle was associated with a missing persons report that had been filed by her family on July 4.
The autopsy was performed by Burlington County Medical Examiner Dr. Ian Hood. The case is being prosecuted by Burlington County Assistant Prosecutor Bob VanGilst, the supervisor of the BCPO Major Crimes Unit.
The case was investigated by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office and the Cinnaminson Township Police Department, with assistance from the Delran and Edgewater Park police departments, and the New Jersey State Police. The lead investigators were BCPO Detective Michael Reagan and Cinnaminson Police Detective Thomas Lillagore Jr.
