{"id":8795,"date":"2023-03-28T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2023-03-28T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:32:19","slug":"body-of-missing-man-32-found-in-toms-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/03\/body-of-missing-man-32-found-in-toms-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Missing Man, 32, Found in Toms River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8796\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"John &quot;Bubby&quot; Applegate\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"John &quot;Bubby&quot; Applegate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8796\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8796\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby.jpg\" alt=\"John &quot;Bubby&quot; Applegate\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby.jpg 780w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John \u201cBubby\u201d Applegate<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed a body found in Toms River on Thursday was that of a man who had been missing for several days.<\/p>\n<p>The body of John \u201cBubby\u201d Applegate, 32, of Beachwood, was discovered in an area of water between Lakehurst Road and Route 37 in Toms River, the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Applegate had been missing since March 24, 2023; his body was located by a family friend who had volunteered to assist with the search, according to the statement. Applegate was transported to Community Medical Center, where his body will undergo a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities previously said Applegate was last seen in the area between Community Medical Center and the Garden State Parkway in Toms River.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/03\/body-of-missing-man-32-found-in-toms-river\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have confirmed a body found in Toms River on Thursday was that of a man who had been missing for several days. The body of John \u201cBubby\u201d Applegate, 32, of Beachwood, was discovered in an area of water between Lakehurst Road and Route 37 in Toms River, the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[379,1080,1763,11],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-beachwood","tag-featured","tag-john-bubby-applegate","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bubby.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}