robert ferguson


Authorities are investigating the death of a 58-year-old city man whose body was found buried in the backyard of his Maple Street home Tuesday as suspicious.
Dreu Ferguson Sr.'s body was exhumed Tuesday morning from the backyard of a home he had shared with his mother and -- at times -- his 33-year-old son, one day after Ferguson's brother reported him missing.
It is unknown how long Ferguson had been dead before his body was unearthed behind 320 Maple St.It is also not known the manner in which he died.
"The preliminary autopsy (performed by Dr. Ian Hood at Shore Memorial Hospital, in Somers Point) did not disclose the cause of death or reveal any trauma to the body," Cumberland County Prosecutor Ron Casella said Tuesday evening.