An autopsy shows that a hunter whose body was found Wednesday on the grounds of a Boy Scouts reservation in Pine Hill, New Jersey, died of multiple stab wounds, as
Man found beaten, stabbed to death on scout reservation, cops say
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
A 54-year-old man was found stabbed and beaten to death Wednesday on a scout reservation in Camden County, officials said.
Joseph Bottino, of Gloucester Township, was discovered about 6:30 p.m. at the Pine Hill Scout Reservation on the 100 block of Watsontown-New Freedom Road in Pine Hill, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Bottino had multiple stab and incised wounds as well as blunt force injuries when police located him, officials said.
Family members told detectives Bottino frequently hunted there.
No arrests have been made.
Updated on December 25, 2020 at 2:44 pm
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Police in South Jersey on Thursday were searching for the suspect in a hunter’s stabbing and bludgeoning death at a Boy Scouts of America campsite.
Joseph Bottino, 54, of Gloucester Township, was found dead around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday from stab and blunt-force injuries near the 100 block of Watsontown-New Freedom Road, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release.
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Family members told investigators that Bottino had been hunting in the area, as he had done “many times” before, according to the prosecutor’s office.