Links: Twists, Turns in Case of Missing Teen Found Dead in Susquehanna River

between the case of Phylicia Barnes, whose body was found floating in the Susquehanna River last week, and that of a 53-year-old male whose body was also found in the river the same day.

The body of the man also floating in the river was identified as Darryl Harper, a Richmond, VA, resident who recently lived in Cockeysville and who had checked himself into a Pennsylvania hospital near the river last month for mental health issues,

The Barnes case has generated national headlines, and the search efforts to find the 16-year-old North Carolina teen who disappeared from her half-sister’s Baltimore apartment on Dec. 28 have spanned the region.

On April 9, the search effort came to Howard County, as hundreds of police and volunteers searched the Patapsco Valley State Park.

In that case, police said they didn’t think foul play was a factor in the death.

The Baltimore Sun ran a story this weekend with an interview with Barnes’s half brother, who said she had no reason to be by the dam at the river and doesn’t know anyone missing that might be linked to her. 

"I'm … angry because I feel like somebody just discarded her like trash," Bryan Banes told The Sun.