Police this afternoon recovered a man's body in the James River, and police believe it may be that of a homicide suspect who killed his wife at their home in the Meadowbrook area.

The body was found just before 1 p.m. below the Pocahontas Parkway bridge that rises some 175 feet above the James River, just east of Interstate 95 in Chesterfield.

It is believed to be the body of Walter Eugene Moorman, 41, whose truck was parked at the top of the bridge.

Chesterfield police said there was blood on the truck. Divers from area water-rescue teams discovered the body about 12:55 p.m.

Lonna R. Gregory-Moorman, 37, was found dead about 6:20 a.m. in a bedroom of her home in the 3500 block of Oregon Oak Drive, police said. Authorities believe she was fatally stabbed.

Investigators were searching all morning for Walter Moorman in connection with her death.

Police have classified the homicide as domestic-related.

Chesterfield police Capt. Paige Foster said Gregory-Moorman’s body showed signs of blunt force trauma but her cause of death has not been established.

The couple lived with their two children, and the victim's sister and her two children were staying at the house, Foster said.

The victim's sister discovered her sibling dead in her bedroom, which had been locked, Foster said.

"We've got a contained incident," Foster said of the slaying. "We don't feel like there was an unknown" person involved, or that the killing resulted from a random break-in.

Foster said police have no record of domestic violence at the house, although authorities did receive a prior 911 call of some type in the past. The residence is in a neighborhood just north of Chippenham Parkway between Defense Supply Center Richmond and Meadowbrook Country Club.

The homicide is Chesterfield's seventh of 2008, which is three shy of the 10 homicides recorded in 2007.