MANTUA TWP. —The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said on Sunday evening that no foul play was suspected after a dead body was found on the banks of Mantua Creek.

A Deptford police officer discovered the body of 58-year-old Theodore Smith III, of Deptford, at about noon on Sunday, not far from the spot where Route 45 crosses the creek. Smith was last seen leaving the nearby Telford Inn in Mantua on Saturday night. His wife had reported him missing at about 2 a.m. Sunday.

Smith had told Telford employees he was walking home, investigators said, and lived just half a mile from where his body was found.

No details about the cause of Smith's death were immediately available on Sunday. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

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