Body found inside laundry bag on Northeast Philly curb
Police say a Jane Doe was found in a laundry bag discarded on a Tacony curb Friday morning
A police car is seen in a file photo. (Alexandru Cuznetov/MCT)
This article originally appeared on NBC10.
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A body was found inside a laundry bag left on the curb of a Northeast Philadelphia street Friday morning.
The grim discovery was made along the 6900 block of Edmund Street, near Longshore Avenue, in the Tacony neighborhood shortly before 7:30 a.m., Philadelphia police said.
Police found a small-framed body of an unidentified female stuffed inside a laundry bag left along the street. Medics later pronounced the person dead.
Investigators didn’t reveal any further details.
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