April 17, 2003
Trenton,
NJ — Mercer County Prosecutor Daniel G. Giaquinto and Hamilton Township Chief
of Police James Collins announced today that the body of Dolores Marie Harrison
was found early this morning near Mercer County Park, behind the Mercer County
Vocational/Technical School, Hamilton, NJ.
Investigators
from multiple agencies have been searching the Delaware River, near Camden, NJ,
for Ms. Harrison’s body since April 8, 2003, when she was reported missing
from her Doreen Road home in Hamilton. Through a joint investigation by
detectives from the Hamilton Police Department and the Mercer County
Prosecutor’s Office, it was determined that a homicide occurred.
The victim’s son, Benjamin J. Harrison (DOB 5/3/78), was arrested and
charged with his mother’s murder on April 9.
He remains in the Mercer County Correction Center in lieu of $750,000
bail.
Yesterday
afternoon, the Hamilton Police Department received information that Ms.
Harrison’s body was buried in Mercer County Park in the vicinity of the Mercer
County Vocational/Technical School. Police
from Hamilton and the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, assisted by the
Nottingham Fire Company and employees from Hamilton Township Public Works
Department, worked from approximately 5 p.m. yesterday until the early morning
hours today and recovered Ms. Harrison’s body and evidence related to the
homicide.
The
investigation is ongoing. Anyone
with information should contact Detective Diszler or Detective Braconi at (609)
581-4041.
Despite having been charged, every defendant is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.