{"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 &#8220;Bubby&#8221; 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 &#8220;Bubby&#8221; Applegate, 32, of Beachwood, was discovered in an area of water between Lakehurst Road and Route 37 in Toms River, the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s 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 &#8220;Bubby&#8221; Applegate, 32, of Beachwood, was discovered in an area of water between Lakehurst Road and Route 37 in Toms River, the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s 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}]}}