Police ID Second Body Pulled from Susquehanna

Authorities with the Maryland State Police have identified the male body pulled from the Susquehanna River last Wednesday.

The body was identified as Darryl Harper, 53, 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 cause and manner of death have not been identified, and more tests are being conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Investigators have found no connection between Harper and , whose body was . The investigation is ongoing.

Barnes, the North Carolina teen missing from Baltimore since Dec. 28, 2010, was found just north of the Conowingo Dam on the Harford County side of the Susquehanna River. She was identified the following day.

Police released the identity of the male—who was found some three to four miles down river from the Conowingo Dam—on Tuesday after members of the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division Latent Print Unit notified investigators they had matched fingerprints from the body with prints entered in the National Crime Information Center database for missing persons.

Harper’s wife reported him missing on April 15. She told investigators she and her husband lived in Cheektowaga, NY, until Nov. 2009, when they moved to an apartment in Cockeysville. They lived there until Feb. 2011, when they moved to Richmond.

Harper’s wife said he left Richmond in early March to travel to their former residence in Cockeysville to pick up items, and she last spoke with him by phone in mid-March.

A relative from the Harrisburg, PA, area called Harper's wife to tell her Darryl Harper checked himself into a hospital in East Penn, PA, along the Susquehanna River, on March 25, requesting help with mental issues. He stayed one night in the hospital, police said.

Harper's wife told police her husband told a relative in March he planned to jump off a bridge. She said he had attempted suicide in 2006.