Elderly Man's Body Found In Woodland Park

WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- Authorities who retrieved an elderly man's body Friday morning from a Morris Canal stream in Woodland Park didn't immediately say whether it was an 85-year-old resident with dementia whose family reported him missing the night before.

Jerry DeMarco

01/13/2017 11:14 a.m.

Next of kin had to be notified before any identification was publicly made, Detective Lt. John Uzzalino said.

The victim apparently fell down a steep ravine behind the American Legion Hall on Mount Pleasant Avenue, he said.

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