A Delaware man has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and killing of a Pennsylvania man whose remains were found by a camp counselor on the bank of the Conowingo Creek in Maryland, the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
Officials said they were called to the bank of the Conowingo Creek near the camping ground on Camp Shadow Brook Road on Aug. 8 by a camp counselor on a nature hike. Investigators with the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office, Pennsylvania State Police, Cecil County Department of Emergency Services, North East Fire Company, Water Witch Fire Company, Chesapeake Search Dogs, and Delaware and Maryland Search Dogs were called in to search the area, according to police, and found “another portion of skeletal remains” on Aug. 14.
The remains were sent to a Pennsylvania State Police laboratory for DNA testing and found to belong to 25-year-old Matthew Whisman of East Drumore Township, Pennsylvania on Oct. 11. Whisman was seen being taken from a residence against his will on April 3, according to police, and had been categorized as a “critically missing person.”…