Hired worker vanishes during job at NJ house, found dead hours later in rising waters

🚨 The rescue of a man turned into a recovery mission in Gloucester County

🚨 The body of a contractor was found in a creek

🚨 He was working on a house when he slipped and fell in the water

WESTVILLE — The search for a missing worker along the Big Timber Creek in Gloucester County came to a grim end.

Dive teams and marine units from Gloucester, Camden, and Cumberland counties searched for hours in the murky creek water on Wednesday. Then, at 8 p.m., it was turned into a recovery mission, according to the Gloucester County Emergency Management.

At around 9:30 p.m., the body of a 36-year-old West Deptford man was recovered by dive teams and was identified as the missing worker, the county emergency management team confirmed on Facebook…

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