Pea Patch swimmer tells of Delaware River skull discovery

    What’s it like to find a skull in the river you’re swimming in?

    Just ask Randy Garrison. He was in the Delaware River with his daughter Sunday off New Jersey’s Pea Patch Island when a human skull floated past them.

    He told Today’s Sunbeam he first thought the skull was a crab pot buoy. The skull turned up in the river between Pennsville Township, N.J., and Delaware City, Del.

     

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    Delaware State Police now have the skull. The forensic tests could take months.

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