{"id":38241,"date":"2025-11-13T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38241\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:51:06","slug":"decomposing-bodies-of-mom-80-and-son-found-inside-brooklyn-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38241\/","title":{"rendered":"Decomposing bodies of mom, 80, and son found inside Brooklyn apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decomposing bodies of an 80-year-old woman and her 52-year-old son were discovered inside a downtown Brooklyn apartment where neighbors said neither victim had been seen in some time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/01\/shootings-hit-record-low-victims-get-younger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Neither victim had any visible wounds. A city Medical Examiner autopsy will determine how each of them died..<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors in the building on Jay St. near Tillary St. called police just before 1 p.m. Wednesday asking them to check on the mother after smelling a foul odor, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the woman and her son dead inside. Their names were not immediately released as cops track down other family members.<\/p>\n<p>The mother had apparently died first. Her body was in an advanced stage of decomposition, a police source said.<\/p>\n<p>No criminality was immediately suspected, police source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decomposing bodies of an 80-year-old woman and her 52-year-old son were discovered inside a downtown Brooklyn apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-38241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","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-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241","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=38241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}