Prince William Co. police ID body of man found in Woodbridge

By Patrick Roth
July 21, 2018 | 9:11 AM

WASHINGTON — Police in Prince William County confirmed the identity of a body found in Marumsco Acre Lake Park earlier this month.

Police said 31-year-old Robert Frederick Rother III of Woodbridge, Virginia, was the victim who was found along a path in on the morning of Friday, July 13.

The cause of Rother’s death has not yet been determined by police and detectives with the Homicide Unit continue to investigate.

A map of where the body was found can be seen below.

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Breaking the silence around suicide: A Virginia mother shares thoughts on prevention

By Kate Ryan
September 1, 2026 | 4:22 AM

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and Betsy Stephenson, an Alexandria, Virginia, resident and a mother who lost her son to suicide, wants people to talk about it. "By not talking about suicide, we are not going to make it go away. In fact, I think that we could inadvertently give it a little more power than it deserves," she told WTOP. One of the things that Stephenson wants families to know is that people who are struggling can appear to be doing well. "You can be very high-functioning as a depressed person or an anxious person," she said. "You can be connected socially. You can be doing well at school or work. You can be making plans, smiling, laughing, engaged, but still be struggling deeply, you know, cosmically, inside."

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