{"id":156467,"date":"2026-03-07T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156467\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:20:31","slug":"human-head-found-in-queens-belongs-to-torso-found-6-months-ago-police-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156467\/","title":{"rendered":"Human head found in Queens belongs to torso found 6 months ago: police sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A human head was discovered in a Queens bird sanctuary this week, believed to belong to a Guyanese woman whose torso was shockingly found in a trash bag<\/a> six months, police sources said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Homicide detectives found the severed head at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge<\/a> Thursday while tracking a suspect\u2019s cellphone tower hits in the torso case, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dismembered torso was located on Sept. 23, 2025, near Idlewood Park \u2014 roughly 10 miles from the bird sanctuary \u2014 a marshland near JFK Airport, the sources said.<\/p>\n

\"BluePolice believe the head that was found Thursday night belongs to a woman\u2019s torso discovered in September about 10 miles away, sources said. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Two city Sanitation Department workers made that grisly discovery while picking up trash near 149th Avenue and Brookville Boulevard., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

The employees\u00a0had loaded the covered remains into the hopper of a vehicle before noticing a foul odor, sources said.<\/p>\n

\"LakeThe head was found at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge near JFK Airport in Queens. Jessica Kirk \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The torso was missing it\u2019s head<\/a>, arms, and legs \u2014 and was wrapped in tape and rope, said cops, who believe a saw and a knife were used.<\/p>\n

The partially decomposed body had several visible tattoos<\/a> including a flower and three names, cops have said.<\/p>\n

The city Medical Examiner\u2019s Office is investigating <\/a>the remains to confirm the victim\u2019s identity and cause of death, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A human head was discovered in a Queens bird sanctuary this week, believed to belong to a Guyanese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[27758,4081,57,238,9,24,63,122,124,123,58],"class_list":["post-156467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-detectives","tag-human-remains","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156467","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=156467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}