afternoon where a passerby had seen a man s body floating in the reservoir at brighton dam. hours later police made a positive identification. he s 46-year-old robert louis thorton of gaithersburg wanted by howard county police on attempted first-degree murder charrings. investigate charges. investigators say on the night of may 12, thorton chased a woman friend into these woods next to brighton dam and cut her neck. he d run her off the road with his pickup truck as she tried to get away from him in her car. after cutting the woman he ran off on foot and was never seen again. late today several of thorton s relatives and friends came to the scene while investigators recovered the body nearby. two hours earlier montgomery county police had been called to a wooded area off brook road in sandy spring just a few miles away for the report of a body found in a thicket of bamboo. it appears to be sheer coincidence, time, location. they re awfully close to each other but we don