Susan Morrissey Ledyard (Delaware State Police) WILMINGTON, Del. - Delaware State Police continue to investigate the 2019 murder of 50-year-old Susan Ledyard.According to police, her body was discovered in the Brandywine River in the area of in Wilmington on July 23, 2019.Her cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma and drowning.
The manner of death was ruled a homicide, police said.On the same date, around 9 a.m. her black 2016 Honda Civic was located parked adjacent to the Rising Sun Lane Bridge over the Brandywine River, approximately three miles upriver from the location where Ledyard’s body was recovered.