PORT ORANGE, Fla. – A woman's body found floating in the Halifax River was identified Thursday by authorities.
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Port Orange police identified the body as Crystal Pifer, 28, of Daytona Beach, and her death has been classified as suspicious. The cause of her death has not been determined, police said.
A boater spotted Pifer's partially-clothed body floating Wednesday near Dunlawton bridge and called 911.
"The tide took (the body) from the bridge back north and it wound up at these docks here at Seven Seas Marine," said Chief Gerald Monahan, of Port Orange Police Department.
Investigators roped off the deck with crime scene tape while medical examiners removed the body.
Police said they're investigating whether the death is related to a disturbance call that came in near the South Daytona ramp.
"There was some activity on the river late last night," Monahan said.
Investigators said the call involved Air One and several law agencies searching the water for hours.
"There were units out looking for reports of somebody jumping off a boat and things of that nature," Monahan said.
South Daytona Police said Pifer jumped from her boyfriend's boat into another man's boat and told him her boyfriend, 42-year-old Thomas Prins, was beating on her.
The man called 911 but police said before he could help her, Pifer jumped back into Prins' boat. Investigators said she was last seen swimming towards the shore and Prins telling them, "Pifer was a good swimmer."
Local 6 went to Prins home where Local 6 was told the couple lived but no one was there. We learned Prins has been arrested at least eight times on charges including child abuse.
Daytona Beach Police say officers responded to their home 12 times since last year for several domestic disturbance calls and once for assault/battery.
The cause of death has still not been determined.