Human Remains Discovered Along Shoreline In South Jersey: Prosecutor

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office is working with local authorities to identify human remains discovered in South Jersey earlier this week.

A skeletonized human leg, the top of a skull and several small bones have been found in the area of Pyne Poynt Park in North Camden, Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Camden County Police Chief Scott Thomson said on Friday.

The property owner and his son discovered the human remains on the shoreline Wednesday morning.

All the remains were collected and arrangements have been made to have them sent to the New Jersey State Police and the New Jersey State Anthropologist to be analyzed.

The investigation is ongoing, and no additional information was provided by a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office on Friday.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Matthew Barber at 856-225-5166 or Camden County Police Detective Webb at 856-757-7420.

Information may also be emailed to ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org.

It is the second time in less than a week that human remains were found in South Jersey.

On Sunday afternoon, a woman who was walking her dog discovered part of a decomposed human leg that apparently washed ashore from the Delaware River in National Park, Gloucester County. In that incident, police described the body part as the lower part of a decomposed leg, from the knee down, with the the foot attached.

There were no clothing or markings on the limb, and no other body parts were found. The leg was transported to the Gloucester County Medical Examiner's Office where a DNA sample will be collected in an effort to make an identification. As of Friday, there was no update on the forensic work, and results from that analysis may not be available for several weeks.

As of Friday afternoon, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said it had not been in communication with Camden County about a possible connection between the two cases.