There was more than one suspect over who purportedly dropped the body of 16-year-old Kimberly Holton out of a flying plane and into the New Jersey waters.

uthorities in two states worked together to learn what happened to a teenage Jane Doe whose body was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean.

On October 8, 2003, fishermen spotted what they believed was debris about three to four miles from the shores of Cape May, New Jersey. Upon closer inspection, the couple realized they’d found what now-retired New Jersey State Police (N.J.S.P.) Detective Steve Brown called a “severely decomposed” body floating in the sea with no signs of identification.

N.J.S.P. Crime Scene Investigator James Thistle told Deadly Waters with Captain Lee that a rock crab “gnawing at her inner thigh” told investigators about where the body had been.

“Rock crabs are bottom feeders, so investigators know that at some point, the body did sink to the ocean floor,” explained show host Captain Lee.

Because the unknown female’s body was beyond two miles from the Jersey Shore, the United States Coast Guard (U.S.C.G.) helped State Police examine the body. All presumed the victim met with foul play based on a large metal chain wrapped around the victim’s ankles and duct tape around her feet and hands.