Overview

• A homeowner discovered the body on Sunday afternoon while removing the winter cover from an East Shoreham backyard pool.
• Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad is investigating the death as possibly being that of the 23-year-old fugitive murder suspect.
• Matthew Zoll allegedly stabbed his father, postal worker Joseph Zoll, to death in their Rocky Point home on November 9 and fled the scene.
• He crashed his vehicle near William Floyd Parkway minutes later and evaded capture despite U.S. Marshals searching nearby woods, including Brookhaven State Park.
• The Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office is conducting the autopsy to confirm identity and determine cause of death.