{"id":633,"date":"2014-08-29T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=633"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T14:07:06","slug":"neighbor-discovers-body-in-lakewood-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/neighbor-discovers-body-in-lakewood-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor Discovers Dead Body in Abandoned Lakewood House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"The Lakewood, N.J. police shield.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-290x195.jpg 290w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakewood, N.J. police shield.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A property manager at a residence on Squankum Road discovered a decomposing body in a nearby home after being alerted to a foul odor by employees of an adjacent business, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made Thursday night after 8 p.m., according to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the property manager made entry into the unsecured abandoned residence, he saw what he believed to be a deceased person,\u201d said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Lakewood police, the prosecutor\u2019s office and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department all responded to the residence at 8:32 p.m., Della Fave said. The male decedent was located in a bedroom in a state of moderate to severe decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>Della Fave said there were no obvious signs of outward trauma or foul play noted.<\/p>\n<p>A physician with the Ocean County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office pronounced the man dead at 10:23 p.m., at which time the body was removed to Community Medical Center pending a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA canvas of the neighborhood revealed that there were a few squatters seen in the area,\u201d Della Fave said in a statement. \u201cMost recently, the deceased was observed in the last two weeks at the residence. The residence was secured pending the outcome of the autopsy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/neighbor-discovers-body-in-lakewood-house\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A property manager at a residence on Squankum Road discovered a decomposing body in a nearby home after being alerted to a foul odor by employees of an adjacent business, authorities said Friday. The discovery was made Thursday night after 8 p.m., according to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office. \u201cWhen the property manager made entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,57],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-lakewood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lakewood_police.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}