{"id":363090,"date":"2026-10-02T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363090\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:08:14","slug":"burned-corpse-mysteriously-found-at-vacant-nyc-lot-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363090\/","title":{"rendered":"Burned corpse mysteriously found at vacant NYC lot: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201ccharred\u201d corpse was shockingly discovered in a Queens lot Thursday afternoon, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man was found lying on the ground around 4:20 p.m. Thursday when police responded to a 911 call from the vacant lot on 139th Street and Hillside Avenue in Briarwood, according to authorities and law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>He had been living in a tent at the lot \u2014 possibly a dormant construction site \u2014 and was believed to be homeless, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41106960\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/burned-body-found-queens-hillside-143478856.jpg\" alt=\"A burned body was found at Hillside Avenue and 139th Street in broad daylight Thursday, cops and sources said.\" class=\"wp-image-41106960\"\/>A burned body was found at a lot at Hillside Avenue and 139th Street Thursday, cops and sources said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41106966\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/burned-body-found-queens-hillside-143478854.jpg\" alt=\"A burned body was found at Hillside Avenue and 139th Street in Queens on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-41106966\"\/>The man\u2019s body appeared \u201ccharred,\u201d and seemed to have been at the site for a while, sources said. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The body appeared \u201ccharred,\u201d and investigators believe it had been there for a while, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS workers.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear how the man died or how his body was badly burned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city medical examiner will determine the cause of death, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made by Friday and the probe remained ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201ccharred\u201d corpse was shockingly discovered in a Queens lot Thursday afternoon, cops and sources said.\u00a0 The unidentified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1527,1015,57,9,11,10,8192,122,58],"class_list":["post-363090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-construction","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-police-investigations","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363090","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=363090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}