<div id="subtitle">Police: Body in NY river likely that of newspaper heiress' daughter who jumped from bridge</div><div><p>Police say they believe they've recovered the body of a woman whose suicidal jump from a suburban New York City bridge echoed her stepfather's plunge from it 15 years ago after a grisly family murder.</p><p>State Police Sgt. Todd Parent says the body found Sunday afternoon in the Hudson River is believed to be that of Anne Morell Petrillo.</p><p>Petrillo was the daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas. Her stepfather, Scott Douglas, leaped to his death from the bridge in 1994 after killing her mother with a claw hammer. The family founded The Detroit News.</p><p>Witnesses saw Petrillo stop her car on the Tappan Zee Bridge and jump Thursday. She left a note, but police have refused to describe it.</p><p>Police say the Rockland County medical examiner's office will make the official identification.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=59913746&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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