{"id":155771,"date":"2026-03-06T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:58:38","slug":"possible-human-remains-found-in-queens-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155771\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible human remains found in Queens wildlife refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possible human remains have been found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nycbirdalliance.org\/events-birding\/birding-resources\/birding-in-nyc\/birding-in-queens\/jamaica-bay-wildlife-refuge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Bay Wildlife<\/a> Refuge, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the scene after getting a 911 call at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The remains were found not far off Cross Bay Boulevard, along the section of the roadway that connects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/20\/howard-beach-karina-vetrano-murder-chanel-lewis-motion-to-vacate-denied\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Beach<\/a> and Broad Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the remains had been cordoned off, with any further investigation delayed because of the rainy weather.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, police said more remains were found nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"FILE - The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens. (Frank Koester for New York Daily News)\" width=\"2000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dec-28-00_00_.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8731516\" \/>FILE &#8211; The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens. (Frank Koester for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the remains are of one person but that the medical examiner will make the final determination.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear how long the remains have been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Possible human remains have been found at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, police said Friday. Officers responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-155771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-county","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}