By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer
MANSFIELD — For the second time in just over three weeks, an unidentified body has been found in the woods here, police said.
Few details were available Friday on this latest case.
On Thursday evening, police said, hunters discovered several articles of clothing that led police to human remains in the forest along Jacksonville Road near the New Jersey Turnpike.
Mansfield police are investigating with the help of the Burlington County prosecutor’s office, New Jersey State Police and the Burlington County medical examiner’s office. Police said no further information would be made available until the body is identified, which is expected to happen early next week.
The site where this body was found is approximately a mile away from Kinkora Road, where the body of 57-year-old Philadelphia resident Lyudmila Burshteyn was found Sept. 2 by a motorist, who spotted it on a narrow dirt road that leads through a wooded area to a field of crops.
Officials sought the public’s help in identifying her remains, and soon learned she had missed a lunch date with her friend that same day. The county medical examiner determined the manner of her death was homicide, though officials did not release a cause of death.
On Sept. 4, police announced they were charging three adult men and one teenage boy, all from Philadelphia, in the murder.
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