Body Found In Calvert Vaux Park Washed Up On the Shore

Brooklyn

A park patron walking along on the shore found a decomposed body this evening washed up on the beach in Calvert Vaux Park (Drier Offerman Park) near Bay 44th Street and the Shore Parkway. 

According to the police it was a male.  

Authorities do not know the age or the cause of death due to its decomposed state. 

The Medical Examiner removed the body and will determine the cause of death.

- Geoffrey Croft

Decomposed Body Found In Cunningham Park

Update

Queens

A badly decomposed body was discovered in Cunningham Park at 5:00pm Friday evening near 73rd Street and Francis Lewis Blvd.

Police describe the body as a male Asian in his 30's and say no criminality is suspected at this time.

The man was found to have a shoe lace around his neck in what appears to be a suicide according to a law enforcement source.

The Medical Examiner will determine cause of death.

- Geoffrey Croft

Body Parts Found In High Bridge Park

MANHATTAN

Human Head, Torso Discovered In NYC Park

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, N.Y. (WPIX) - A decomposing human head and torso were discovered in a grassy area of Highbridge Park in Washington Heights Tuesday, police said.

According to authorities, a Parks Department employee found the remains along side a guard rail adjacent to the park, off the southbound Harlem River Drive at W. 167th Street at around 9:40 a.m.

Investigators couldn't immediately say whether the body parts belonged to the same person.

The Medical Examiner is expected to conduct an autopsy to determine the identity and cause of death. The investigation is ongoing.

The remains were reportedly badly decomposed, and believed to be in the park for an extended period of time.

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