Body found in sleeping bag on New York street

A person was found dead yesterday inside an abandoned sleeping bag in Midtown East, Manhattan (NYC).

The discovery came shortly before 5 p.m. Friday at 207 E. 27th St. in the Kips Bay neighborhood when officers responded to reports of a suspicious package. Upon examination, they found a body inside, police said. ABC News.

Eyewitnesses said the body was left next to trash on the street. The sex and age of the body are unknown. An investigation by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office (OCME) is underway to determine the identity of the victim and how she died.

Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). They can also be reached via crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

In general, the discovery of whole or partial bodies in public places is common in New York and nearby areas, and it sometimes takes time to identify the victims.

In May, a human head was found floating in Jamaica Bay, Queens. Earlier that month, a man was found dead floating in waters near the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan.

Days later, human remains found submerged in a New Jersey creek were identified as those of Charles Murphy, a man who has been missing since 1982, prosecutors said.

In April, a case that had been open for almost 39 years was also closed in New Jersey: the newborn found dead in a bag in a park on Christmas Eve 1984.

Between February 29 and early March, two dissected human bodies were found in wooded areas of Long Island (NY). They were later identified as Malcolm Craig Brown (53) and his partner Donna Conneely (59), and a cousin of his was arrested along with three other people.

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

In the fall of 2020, two newborn twins were abandoned dead in a high-traffic residential area in the Bronx (NYC) and more than three years later, no one has been arrested in the case.

The Mexican-born girl Dulce María Alavez has been missing for more than four years. She was last seen in a park in New Jersey when she was 5 years old, in September 2019. A reward of $75,000 dollars and the work of the FBI – one of the most advanced investigative forces in the world – have not been enough to find her or at least find out what happened to her.

Anyone with information on these cases is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). They can also be reached at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.