Woman found dead with bruises in New York park

A woman was found dead with bruises on her face and knees inside a park in The Bronx (NYC) early yesterday morning.

A visitor to Walter Gladwin Park made the dramatic discovery near the corner of E. 175th St. and Arthur Ave. in East Tremont around 5 a.m. Friday, the NYPD said.

The woman, who was wearing a blue jacket, was found near a shipping container next to a park trail, he said. DailyNews. Dry leaves stuck out of her hair and in her hand she held a white plastic bag. A pair of red sports shoes were found near her.

The woman was officially pronounced dead at the scene. Her name was not immediately released. Aside from wounds to her face and knees, there did not appear to be any other trauma to her body, cops said. An autopsy by the City Coroner’s Office (OCME) should determine how and when she died.

The discovery of bodies in public places is common in New York and sometimes it takes time to identify the victims. Last week, New York firefighters (FDNY) made a dramatic discovery while extinguishing flames in a car in Brooklyn: the body of a man in the driver’s seat. Days before, a body was seen floating in the Hudson River that divides New York from New Jersey, the NYPD reported.

At the end of January, human skeletal remains were found at a construction site in Queens (NYC). In December, a man was found dead near a playground in Central Park with cuts and wounds to his neck and torso. Also that month a male body was found floating in the water in Paerdegat Basin in Brooklyn (NYC) in broad daylight.

Previously, a man was found dead in the weeds on a road in the Bronx. Then a 20-year-old man died after collapsing in the front yard of a single-family home in Queens (NYC) and residents said they have no idea who he was.

In late November a young man and woman were found dead within hours of each other in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In the middle of that month, a body without a head or arms was found in the sand of a beach in the Rockaways neighborhood. It was the third body found in a public area in Queens in less than a week.

At the end of October, an adult human body was found inside a garbage bag on a street in The Bronx (NYC). In September, a body with larvae was found in the parking lot of a TD Bank branch in Queens (NYC).

Also that month, a walker in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park came across the body of a woman with several visible wounds. In July a body was found floating in a lake in the northern area of ​​Central Park.

In January 2021, human remains were found in a park on Staten Island, along with a calendar from the year 2005. Months later, it was determined that the bones were from a short man (between 4’11” and 5’5″). , possibly Asian or Hispanic, and who had been murdered on an unspecified date. But so far the victim has not been identified and there have been no arrests.

In November 2020, two newborn twins were left dead in a high-traffic residential area in the Bronx and, more than three years later, no one has been arrested in the case.

Anyone with information about these cases should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.