The caretaker found Bottino’s body in the reservation’s parking lot around 6:30 p.m., Shah said.
“The fact that he was in the parking lot suggests that he was on his way home to his family,” she said of Bottino, the married father of two children.
An autopsy on Christmas Eve determined Bottino had died from multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma injuries, Shah continued.
“The weight of the evidence in this case is quite strong,” added the prosecutor. She said Massey left a fingerprint on the victim’s phone and the suspect’s own phone was found during a search of the 22-acre reservation.
In addition, New Jersey State Police reported two fatal accidents elsewhere in Camden County and a third in Burlington County.
A West Berlin man, 27-year-old Dashionn Graham, died when his vehicle struck a tree and overturned off northbound 295 in Haddon Heights around 6:45 a.m. on Dec. 24, police said.
The accident occurred around 6:45 a.m. at milepost 28.6.
A Philadelphia woman, 34-year-old Rebecca Aviles, was fatally injured Sunday in a single-vehicle accident on northbound Route 42 in Bellmawr.
Aviles was a passenger in a Jeep Cherokee that ran off the left side of the highway, overturned and re-entered the roadway around 11:45 p.m., police said.