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John Werth, director of public safety for Northville Township, shows the six-day-old booking photo of 44-year-old Cheryl Lynn Boeskool of Garden City.The man suspected of killing a 44-year-old Garden City woman and dumping her body in a Northville pond could be in court tomorrow.
Township police said they have a suspect in the case but have not released his name because he has not yet been arraigned.
“The investigators are currently compiling the evidence and will be submitting an investigator’s report to the Wayne County Prosecutor for review,” said a written statement released by the department Thursday afternoon. “The suspect has been transferred to the Northville Township Police Department where he remains in custody.”
The body of Cheryl Lynn Boeskool was spotted in the pond off Haggerty Road, just south of Six Mile Road near the Senate Coney Island restaurant.
A township resident made the discovery when she approached the pond to look at some ducks, according to a 911 taped played Wednesday afternoon during a press conference at the township police station.
“It was such an odd color and such a large thing,” the caller told police dispatchers.
Township police checked with other agencies, but none reported any missing persons. They had hoped to identify the 215-pound woman through a distinctive ring on her left hand—a pearl emerald shaped stone surrounded by cubic zirconiums—but fingerprints from previous bookings revealed her identity.
“She had an extensive criminal history,” said John Werth director of public safety for Northville Township.
The medical examiner determined that Boeskool died from multiple blunt force trauma to her head and face. She was found clothed only in a shirt and bra.
Police said they believe she could have been in the pond for as long as a week, but she was arrested six days ago in Warren on suspicion of retail fraud and narcotics charges.
Detectives and Wayne County Sheriff dive teams searched the pond throughout the day on Wednesday, with no success.
Werth said he believed the crime took place in a different community.
“All indications are that she was just dumped here,” he said, “but this is all preliminary.”
