{"id":240239,"date":"2026-05-22T05:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240239\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:08:24","slug":"news-12-bronx-investigation-continues-after-woman-found-dead-under-cross-bronx-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240239\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Investigation Continues After Woman Found Dead Under Cross Bronx Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are continuing to investigate after a woman was found dead under the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/woman-found-dead-underneath-cross-bronx-expressway-overpass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cross Bronx Expressway in Tremont on Wednesday afternoon.<\/a> Officers discovered the woman&#8217;s body under a sheet by the overpass.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources tell News 12 that investigators initially believed the woman may have been pregnant, but later determined extreme heat could have caused bloating. The medical examiner&#8217;s office is now working to determine the woman&#8217;s cause and time of death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Council Member Oswald Feliz called the discovery &#8220;horrible&#8221; and said more needs to be done to help homeless New Yorkers. He also said he heard that the woman may have died at a nearby homeless encampment before her body was moved, though police have not confirmed that.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People who work and live nearby told News 12 they noticed a strong odor in the area for days leading up to the discovery. A nearby gas station employee said he regularly sees drug transactions and sexual activity in the area and is now calling for more lighting and cameras under the overpass.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have not released the woman&#8217;s identity. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are continuing to investigate after a woman was found dead under the Cross Bronx Expressway in Tremont&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-240239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240239","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=240239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}