Crime & Safety

Washed-Up Body ID'd as Linden Man

The man is thought to have jumped from the Parkway/Driscoll Bridge on Dec. 14.

South Amboy, NJ - The dead body of a man who washed up on the beach in South Amboy Saturday has been identified as a Linden man, according to NJ.com.

John Licknack, 50, of Linden, is thought to have jumped off the Driscoll Bridge/Garden State Parkway Bridge, police told NJ.com. He jumped Dec. 14 and his body just washed up this weekend, discovered by a man walking on the beach in South Amboy Saturday.

The Driscoll Bridge connects Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County with Sayreville. At 135 feet high at its tallest point, the bridge has been the site of several suicides and in 2010, Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem allegedly threw his infant daughter off the bridge into the Raritan River.

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