Bodies found in Camden were overdose victims

CAMDEN, N.J. - March 2, 2010

Around 6:00 a.m., the body of an unidentified woman was found bloodied and frozen in the rear of a yard in the 700 block of New Street.

She was found just a short distance from where two bodies were found in a shallow grave behind a Camden home on Thursday. Those bodies have been identified as 23-year-old Michael Hawkins of Mount Holly and 18-year-old Muriah Ashley Huff of Cinnaminson. Autopsies found Hawkins suffered blunt force trauma and several gunshot wounds. Huff also suffered blunt force trauma and was strangled.

Meanwhile, another body was discovered near a home in the 700 block of North Fifth Street around 8:00 a.m.

Police say a woman who lives in a home there noticed a man in her back alley. She called police who arrived on the scene and pronounced the man dead.

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