{"id":160575,"date":"2026-03-11T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:10:34","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-womans-remains-found-in-queens-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160575\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in connection to woman’s remains found in Queens wildlife refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

An arrest has been made in connection to the discovery last week of human remains<\/a> inside Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens \u2014 after it was determined the body parts belonged to the same woman whose dismembered corpse was found near JFK Airport months earlier, police sources said.<\/p>\n

The suspect\u2019s name and charges were not immediately released.<\/p>\n

Cops found the human remains in the refuge not far off Cross Bay Boulevard in Broad Channel, the only occupied island in Jamaica Bay, about 10:30 p.m. March 5.<\/p>\n

\"FILEFILE – The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens. (Frank Koester for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Detectives quickly connected the discovery to pieces of a decomposing torso<\/a> found in a garbage bag by sanitation workers picking up trash at a Queens park near JFK Airport back on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n

Department of Sanitation workers doing roadside cleanup called police after finding the garbage bag containing a woman\u2019s remains near 149th Ave. and Brookville Blvd. on the edge of Idlewild Park<\/a> in Rosedale just before 8 a.m.<\/p>\n

Inside the bag was a woman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The garbage bag containing the body was found in some brush \u201cabout 100 feet south of the street,\u201d NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters following the discovery. Sanitation workers had just thrown it into the truck\u2019s hopper when they smelled a foul odor and alerted the police, he said.<\/p>\n

The corpse\u2019s head and limbs had been methodically sliced off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After her death, \u201ca knife was used to cut through the soft tissue, and a saw was used to cut through the bone,\u201d\u00a0 Kenny said.<\/p>\n

The victim also \u201chad several unique and identifying tattoos,\u201d that could provide clues to her identity, Kenny added.<\/p>\n

Cops spent months scouring open missing persons cases for potential leads.<\/p>\n

The tattoos included \u201cthree names and a flower,\u201d Kennt said.<\/p>\n

The torso, Kenny said \u201cdidn\u2019t have any wounds or injuries,\u201d making determining a cause of death difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest has been made in connection to the discovery last week of human remains inside Jamaica Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-160575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160575","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=160575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160575\/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=160575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}