Human skeletal remains were discovered at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx Friday morning, police and law enforcement sources said. <\/p>\n
A group of artifact hunters made the chilling discovering in a wooded section of the park, just off the southbound side of the Major Deegan Expressway around 11:38 a.m., according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n
Police and medical examiner personnel removing human remains on a stretcher at night from the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. KYLE MAZZA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
A group of artifact hunters made the chilling discovering in a wooded section of the park, just off the southbound side of the Major Deegan Expressway around 11:38 a.m. KYLE MAZZA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
As of Friday night, police were still probing the grim scene near Exit 13 of the expressway. <\/p>\n
Portions of the park were also cordoned off as police investigated the grim scene. KYLE MAZZA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Photos showed the city\u2019s Office of Chief Medical Examiner removing the remains from the scene. <\/p>\n
Portions of the park were also cordoned off as the investigation continued. <\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear how the remains ended up there or how the person had died. KYLE MAZZA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
The NYPD is investigating, along with the city medical examiner\u2019s office. KYLE MAZZA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear how the remains ended up there or how the person had died. <\/p>\n
The NYPD is investigating, along with the city medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human skeletal remains were discovered at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx Friday morning, police and law enforcement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,4081,19085,57,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,58,18230],"class_list":["post-69537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-human-remains","tag-investigations","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-van-cortlandt-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69537","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=69537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}