NJ hunter found stabbed, beaten to death at Boy Scout reservation
PINE HILL A 54-year-old man went hunting on Wednesday but never made it back home. Prosecutors say somebody killed him and left his body at a Boy Scout reservation.
The body of Joseph Bottino, 54, of Gloucester Township, was found about 6:30 p.m. in the Pine Hill reservation on Watsontown-New Freedom Road.
Camden County Acting Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer said the body had multiple stab wounds and blunt-force injuries. A medical examiner ruled Bottino s death a homicide.
Family members told investigators that Bottino had been hunting at the reservation, as he done many times before.
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A second man convicted of killing a sleeping woman during a home invasion at a South Jersey blueberry farm has been sentenced to prison, authorities announced.
Tyler Dralle, 23, of Vineland, was given an aggregate sentence of 40 years in prison subject to the No Early Release Act on Dec. 18, Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Winslow Township Police Chief George Smith.
Kwamere Benjamin, 20, of New Castle, Delaware, was sentenced to 38 years in prison two weeks ago.
Dralle and Benjamin entered a home on the 700 block of Bairdmore Avenue in Winslow Township around 3:50 a.m. on June 25, 2017, after Dralle spent weeks researching it, police said.
2nd man sentenced in murder of sleeping woman at N.J. blueberry farm
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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The second of two men convicted of murdering a woman while she slept during a home invasion at a Winslow Township blueberry farm was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison, according to a joint statement from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and the Winslow Township Police.
Tyler Dralle, 23, of Vineland, was handed his sentence two weeks after Kwamere Benjamin, 20, of New Castle, Delaware was given a 38-year state prison sentence, authorities said.
The two men entered the home around 3:50 a.m. on June 25, 2017 after Dralle had scoped it out weeks earlier during his time working there, police said.