{"id":312176,"date":"2026-08-03T01:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312176\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:33:19","slug":"rotting-corpse-found-with-knife-in-neck-inside-nyc-home-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312176\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotting corpse found with knife in neck inside NYC home: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rotting 58-year-old man\u2019s body was found with a knife sticking out <\/a>of his neck inside a Brooklyn home Sunday afternoon, according to cops and sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police were summoned to the home for a wellness check when they made the gruesome discovery around 12:41 p.m. inside a brownstone at 716 Madison St. in Bed-Stuy, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how long he was there but sources said his body was \u201chighly decomposed\u201d with a knife protruding from his neck.<\/a><\/p>\n

Police and medical examiners at the scene of a fatal stabbing in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n

Police made the gruesome discovery during a wellness check at a Bed-Stuy brownstone, finding the body \u201chighly decomposed.\u201d Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,<\/a> police said.<\/p>\n

His identity has yet to be released pending family notification.<\/p>\n

The grisly find comes weeks after another decaying corpse was discovered in a Staten Island home due to a putrid odor. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n

The grisly find comes weeks after a putrid odor led cops to discovering a\u00a0man\u2019s decaying corpse<\/a>\u00a0in a Staten Island home.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rotting 58-year-old man\u2019s body was found with a knife sticking out of his neck inside a Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4987,98,100,99,4081,57,9,24,63,103,58],"class_list":["post-312176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bedford-stuyvesant","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-human-remains","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312176","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=312176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}