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May 19, 2009

Another body found in Harbor

Baltimore Sun's Brent Jones reports today that another body has been found in the Inner Harbor. That makes five or six this year (I've actually lost count), with still only one in Leakin Park, our most famous body dumping ground.

Few details were immediately available on the latest find; most of the bodies are not crime victims, and some could've been under water for months or even years before finally making their way to the surface.

Back in April I wrote about four of the bodies that were found there and my colleague Laura Vozzella mentioned in her column how visiting prosecutors stumbled upon police retrieving one of them.

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About Peter Hermann
Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

Coverage will focus on crime trends, problems in neighborhoods in the city and elsewhere, profiles of victims and police officers and try to offer readers a fresh perspective on one of the most vexing issues facing Baltimore and its future.


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Contributing to this blog is Justin Fenton, who joined the Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting.
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