{"id":155783,"date":"2026-03-06T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:09:34","slug":"possible-human-remains-found-in-queens-wildlife-refuge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155783\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible human remains found in Queens wildlife refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jamaica Bay Wildlife;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jamaica Bay Wildlife<\/a> Refuge, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Howard Beach;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Howard Beach<\/a> and Broad Channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the remains had been cordoned off, with any further investigation delayed because of the rainy weather.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday morning, police said more remains were found nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe the remains are of one person but that the medical examiner will make the final determination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":155784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64459,64458,4081,64457,9,24,63,122,124,123,1357],"class_list":{"0":"post-155783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-broad-channel","9":"tag-cross-bay-boulevard","10":"tag-human-remains","11":"tag-jamaica-bay-wildlife-refuge","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-rainy-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155783","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=155783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}