Subject: RE: Murder on a Border<br/>
Date: Feb 10, 2005 @ 23:05<br/>
Author: Ron McConnell (&quot;Ron McConnell&quot; &lt;rcmcc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-511809425">Speaking of Murder on a Border...<br/>
<br/>
Some of you in the USA may be aware that<br/>
a little piece of land connected to New Jersey<br/>
extends out into the Delaware River<br/>
into the territory the state of Delaware.<br/>
Many years ago the US Army Corps of Engineers<br/>
kept dumping dirt out in the river<br/>
until it built up past the border.<br/>
I don&#39;t think this was their intention;<br/>
they just needed to dump a lot of dirt.<br/>
This little tip of land is now part<br/>
of the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge,<br/>
formerly the Killcohook N. W. R.<br/>
<br/>
Approximately<br/>
 N 39º 25&#39; 30&#39;  W 075º 26&#39; 30<br/>
<br/>
I recall reading that many years ago someone<br/>
murdered another fellow and dumped the body<br/>
out across the border on the Delaware side.<br/>
(The body wasn&#39;t right on the border<br/>
as hypothesized by the thread here.)<br/>
The body was found (by a hunter?)<br/>
and the New Jersey State Police stood guard<br/>
at the border untilthe Delaware State Police<br/>
could come up by Philadelphia, across the bridge<br/>
and down to the land to investigate.<br/>
<br/>
Does anyone know more about:<br/>
the history of how the Army came to build the land,<br/>
where did all the dirt come from,<br/>
was there such a murder,<br/>
were the murderer and victim from NJ,<br/>
where did the crime occur,<br/>
and what came of it ?????<br/>
<br/>
Speaking of great circle calculators<br/>
on the &quot;Russia Extremes...&quot; thread<br/>
(an interesting one), I have a freeware<br/>
great circle/geodesic calculator GCGC<br/>
on my web site below.<br/>
GCGC has been accepted by the US NGS<br/>
as &quot;User Contributed Software.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Have fun.<br/>
<br/>
Cheers, 73,<br/>
<br/>
Ron McC.<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:w2iol@...">w2iol@...</a><br/>
<br/>
Ronald C. McConnell, PhD<br/>
<br/>
 WGS-84: N 40º 46&#39; 57.9&quot;  +/-0.1&quot;<br/>
         W 74º 41&#39; 21.3&quot;  +/-0.1&quot;<br/>
         FN20ps.77GU96 +/-<br/>
         V +5058  H +1504<br/>
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I was gratified to be able<br/>
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I said I didn&#39;t know.<br/>
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