Horror in New York: Burning corpse found in shopping cart under bridge

A burning body was found yesterday in a shopping cart under a bridge in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York.

According to the Police Department, the body was located around 2 a.m. Monday after they were notified of a fire under the Oak St. bridge near Yonkers’ western border with Mount Vernon. Once the flames were extinguished, officers confirmed it was a crime scene.

“They determined that a body had been placed in a shopping cart and apparently set on fire at that location,” Detective Sergeant Frank DiDomizio said in a statement to the Daily News.

A source of ABC News He said the body had been dismembered, but investigators could not immediately confirm that detail because of the damage caused by the flames.

The Oak St. Bridge spans the Bronx River Road, Bronx River Parkway, and the Metro-North Railroad tracks between Grand Central Terminal and upstate New York.

Because of the location where the body was found, Westchester police are leading the investigation with the county medical examiner’s office. Numerous emergency response units responded to the overpass Monday. The age, sex and race of the victim have not been determined. It is also unknown how, where and when the victim died.

No arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and for 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. Last month, a woman was found dead with her head shot inside an abandoned sleeping bag in Midtown East, Manhattan (NYC) and later her roommate was arrested as a suspect.

Exactly one year ago NYPD found a body in a shopping cart in The Bronx, almost 10 miles south of Yonkers in August 2023. That corpse was wrapped in plastic.

Also in March 2022, police officers in Brooklyn (NYC) discovered the dismembered body of a woman in a shopping cart outside a pawn shop in an industrial area of ​​East New York, near an elevated subway line.

Last week, two bodies were discovered in wooded areas outside New York City: one in a park in Yonkers and another on Long Island.

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 creek in New Jersey were identified as those of Charles Murphy, a man who had been missing since 1982, prosecutors said. In April, a case that had been open for nearly 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.

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.