{"id":188788,"date":"2026-04-07T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:06:29","slug":"human-skeletal-remains-found-by-bqe-exit-in-queens-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188788\/","title":{"rendered":"Human skeletal remains found by BQE exit in Queens, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skeletal remains of a badly decomposed body were found near an off-ramp of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Queens Tuesday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the remains were those of a woman or a man \u2014 or how old the person was.<\/p>\n<p>Police found the grisly body parts after they responded to an 11:09 a.m. 911 call and arrived at the scene \u2014 a vacant storage area under the Exit 41 ramp of the BQE that feeds onto Northern Blvd. in East Elmhurst.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/ocme\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">autopsy<\/a> will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skeletal remains of a badly decomposed body were found near an off-ramp of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"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-188788","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\/188788","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=188788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}