"You can't come around here twice," he said, "without someone knowing what's going on." The small stream and relatively thin woods where the body was found are not nearly as secluded as other parts of the area, he said. John Woods, a resident since 1980, said he did not believe whoever dumped the body was from the area. The discovery of a body - most likely a murder victim - in a residential area "makes you nervous," VanHouten said, especially since she has young children. "It was the last day of school around here." "I thought someone was having pool party," she said. Gail VanHouten, a resident of the neighborhood for seven years, didn't understand what the stir was about. Police diverted traffic off Lake Wallkill Road and around Stratfordshire Drive, which loops back onto Lake Wallkill Road past where the body was found. Residents in Vernon were surprised to see police roadblocks Friday evening in their secluded slice of suburbia. He had short wavy brown hair and blue eyes and was wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans and black work boots. The police description said he was 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and weighed 165 pounds. June 7 to go to work at Roosevelt Island, N.Y. Mitchell reportedly left his home in Saylorsburg at 4 a.m. Pennsylvania State Police at Lehighton listed Mitchell as a missing person on June 7. The Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy Friday night and indicated homicide as the manner of death and asphyxiation as the cause, the prosecutor's office said. It is unclear how long the body was there, First Assistant Prosecutor William Fitzgibbons said. Members of the Sussex County Road Department discovered the body as they worked along the edge of Lake Wallkill Road near Stratfordshire Drive. New Jersey State Police used fingerprint identification technology to determine the white male body was that of John Mitchell, 30, the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office said Monday. Officials identified a body in the northeast corner of Sussex County Friday evening as a 30-year-old Saylorsburg man who was most likely murdered by suffocation.
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