Jersey City Woman Last Seen Jogging Around Lake Before Her Murder

JERSEY CITY, NJ — The body of a woman was pulled out of a lake in Lincoln Park in Jersey City Sunday morning, and police now say she was murdered.

The woman has been identified as Caroline Cano, 45, of Jersey City. On Sunday, March 24, shortly after 7:30 a.m., the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a possible body found in Lincoln Park.

Officers responded and found the body of a woman in the lake; members of the Jersey City Fire Department pulled her body out of the water.

She was pronounced dead at approximately 9:30 a.m. that Sunday. On Thursday, the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office announced they have determined that the manner of death is homicide.

Sources told NBC 4 that the woman works as a nanny and she lives in one of the homes near Lincoln Park. The sources said the woman told her roommate she went out to exercise at 5:30 a.m. that Sunday morning and never came home. She was found wearing her sneakers when she was pulled from the lake. Police are investigating whether Cano may have been sexually assaulted and then strangled, those sources told NBC 4.

Pix 11 reported the woman was last seen jogging around the lake that Sunday morning. She reportedly had to work on Sunday and that's why she was up early exercising.

There are many jogging and walking trails in Lincoln Park. Her roommate told NBC she was devastated by the sudden death.

Cano is originally from Peru and worked as a nanny for a family in Passaic County, the sources told NBC. She does not have a boyfriend.

No arrests have been made at this time. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Office of the Hudson County Prosecutor at 201-915-1345 or to leave an anonymous tip at:
http://www.hudsoncountyprosecutorsofficenj.org/homicide-tip/. All information will be kept
confidential.