Body Washes Up On Staten Island Shore, May Have Been Verrazano Bridge Jumper

A woman’s body has washed up onto the Staten Island shore, and police are investigating if it belongs to a woman believed to have jumped from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday.

The body surfaced Tuesday morning in the water off Midland Avenue and Father Capadano Boulevard in Midland Beach, and is believed to be in her 50s, the same age as the woman believed to have taken a fatal plunge from the bridge on Sunday. She has not been officially identified.

SI Live reports:

Shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, police said a motorist abandoned a car mid-span on the Staten Island-bound side of the bridge’s upper level, and a witness saw a female climb over the bridge railing.

That car was registered to Susan Toth, 52, of the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, the NYPD spokesman said. At this point, police have not confirmed the identity of the jumper as Ms. Toth.

A woman answering the phone at Ms. Toth’s address declined comment Tuesday morning.

Sunday marks the seventh apparent suicide from the Verrazano since December 2011.