{"id":283797,"date":"2026-07-01T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:19:09","slug":"decomposing-body-found-in-queens-public-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283797\/","title":{"rendered":"Decomposing body found in Queens public school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLENDALE \u2013 A CORPSE WAS found at P.S.\/I.S. 113 Anthony J. Pranzo in Glendale on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/human-remains-discovered-inside-chimney-ps-113-anthony-pranzo-glendale-queens\/19421585\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reports ABC News<\/a>. The school building is just north of Forest Park.<\/p>\n<p>The body was discovered in a state of decomposition after maintenance staff at the school smelled a foul odor and called a pest control service. Sources said the exterminator discovered a foot in the school\u2019s chimney after opening it to inspect it. Emergency services were working to remove the body from the chimney on Tuesday..<\/p>\n<p>Students at the school, which is out for the summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/30\/us-news\/rotting-body-found-in-nyc-school-chimney-after-putrid-odor-leads-to-call-to-exterminator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told the New York Post<\/a> that the smell had permeated the building for weeks prior to the discovery. The victim is male, and reportedly had a size 9 or 10 shoe; his identity is unknown. Sources said police are investigating whether he may have been a construction worker, as renovation work had recently taken place at the school.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE \u2013 A CORPSE WAS found at P.S.\/I.S. 113 Anthony J. Pranzo in Glendale on Tuesday, reports ABC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3302,53723,9,24,63,209,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-283797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-breaking","tag-death-body-found","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-public-schools","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283797","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=283797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}