{"id":75656,"date":"2025-12-19T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75656\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:53:27","slug":"human-remains-found-near-jackie-robinson-parkway-identified-death-ruled-a-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75656\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found near Jackie Robinson Parkway identified; death ruled a homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD says <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/possible-human-skeleton-found-near-jackie-robinson-parkway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human remains discovered<\/a> near Jackie Robinson Parkway have been identified, and the chief medical examiner deemed the death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Police named the victim as 27-year-old Christina G. Purdie, of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Transportation worker discovered the skeletal remains of Purdie on Aug. 6 in a grassy area off the parkway near Vermont Place in Queens, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police previously <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-release-images-of-tattoo-jewelry-from-remains-found-near-jackie-robinson-parkway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released images<\/a> of jewelry and a tattoo found on Purdie, along with an approximate age and height, as part of a lengthy effort to identify her.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details about Purdie\u2019s death have not been released. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD says human remains discovered near Jackie Robinson Parkway have been identified, and the chief medical examiner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1027,4081,4286,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-75656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-homicide","tag-human-remains","tag-human-remains-found","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75656","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=75656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}