A woman whose decomposing torso was found in a garbage bag by sanitation workers picking up trash at a Queens park near JFK Airport was coldly chopped into pieces — with her head and limbs methodically sliced off — according to police.
After her death, “a knife was used to cut through the soft tissue, and a saw was used to cut through the bone,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Thursday of the victim.
The victim also “had several unique and identifying tattoos,” that could provide clues to her identity, Kenny added.
Cops are continuing to scour open missing persons cases for potential leads.
Department of Sanitation workers doing roadside cleanup called police after finding the garbage bag containing the woman’s remains near 149th Ave. and Brookville Blvd. on the edge of Idlewild Park in Rosedale just before 8 a.m. Monday, cops said.
Inside the bag was a woman’s partially skeletonized, decomposing torso, with the head, arms and legs missing. Police used drones to canvas the area, but no other body parts were immediately found.
An autopsy was done, but so far the woman’s identity and cause of death are still unknown.
“As we begin the investigation, we are looking into all missing person reports,” for similarities to the victim, Kenny said.
The tattoos included “three names and a flower,” the chief said.
“The torso does not have any wounds or injuries, so there isn’t any cause of death,” Kenny continued. “We have a forensic anthropologist looking into it to try to find more. There was one broken rib, but we believe that occurred when the body was dropped.”
Although cops have yet to identify the victim, police believe she may be a missing Guyanese woman.
“We have a case we are very interested in,” Kenny said, “but we don’t want to notify the family until we determine more.”
The garbage bag containing the body was found in some brush “about 100 feet south of the street,” Kenny said. Sanitation workers had just thrown it into the truck’s hopper when they smelled a foul odor and alerted the police.
