Omaha Police are looking for any connection between the person whose body was recovered from Omaha's Regency Lake Wednesday morning and the beating of an elderly woman in a nearby lakeside apartment Tuesday morning.
Autopsy and toxicology tests are being performed on the body of 21 year old Hunter Hawthorne of Bennington.
The assault victim, 77-year old Jackie Leahy, is hospitalized in Intensive Care with severe injuries, including a concussion and four broken ribs.