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Woman found stabbed in her home

Police are searching for the killer of a Gloucester County woman found stabbed in her home Saturday.

Police are searching for the killer of a Gloucester County woman found stabbed in her home Saturday.

Lockey Mitten, 64, of Williamstown, was last seen by her neighbors in the Colonial Park mobile-home community on Black Horse Pike about 5:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office.

A neighbor discovered Mitten lying on a sofa in her living room early Saturday evening. Mitten, a widow who lived alone, was stabbed once in the throat, Gloucester County Medical Examiner Dr. Gerald Feigin reported following an autopsy.

Without having discovered a motive or a murder weapon, investigators from the Prosecutor's Office and the Williamstown Police were canvassing a three-block area surrounding the scene of the homicide.

- Jeff Shields