The body of a woman found in the D&R Canal on Thursday morning has been positively identified as that of Martha Runyon, the 60-year-old Lawrenceville woman who was reported missing on Monday.

Runyon's death has been ruled a suicide by drowning, Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Doris Galuchie said Thursday afternoon. The body was discovered around 9:20 a.m., about 300 yards south of Litho Road, near the border of Hamilton.

"A woman was walking her dog on the Canal path and saw a body, or what she believed to be a body, in the Canal," Galuchie said. Investigators believe Runyon had been in the canal since Monday.