The two-week search for a missing Long Island grandmother has turned into a murder investigation after a body was found in some woods, police said.
Kathleen Harrison Trent, 63, was reported missing by her son on January 29 after she was last seen at her home on Forge Road in Riverhead, ABC 7 reported.
During ongoing searches on Wednesday, officers from the Suffolk County Police Department found the body of an “adult female” in a wooded area south of River Road in Manorville.
Detectives are still awaiting formal identification by the medical examiner, which could take several days.
But the cause of death was determined to be “criminal in nature” and is being investigated by the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad, according to police.
Trent, a mother and grandmother, worked as a security guard at Riverhead Raceway.
“She didn’t have a bad bone in her body,” one friend, Kelly Turbush, told ABC 7.
“Anybody who knew her loved her, anybody … If she could give, she would,” Kelly Turbush told ABC 7.
Another friend, Tanya Burriss, said she was “destroyed” at hearing a body had been found.
“She was a good person, good kind person.”
