{"id":75938,"date":"2025-12-19T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75938\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:17:11","slug":"decomposing-remains-found-stuffed-in-garbage-bag-near-queens-highway-idd-as-christina-purdie-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75938\/","title":{"rendered":"Decomposing remains found stuffed in garbage bag near Queens highway ID’d as Christina Purdie, 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

A decomposing body found stuffed in a garbage bag<\/a> and dumped on the side of a Queens highway in August has been identified as 27-year-old Brooklyn resident Christina Purdie, cops announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

Purdie\u2019s remains were discovered by a city Department of Transportation worker just off the Jackie Robinson Parkway near Vermont Place and Highland Park<\/a> on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n

She lived on Kenilworth Place near Farragut Road<\/a> in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, cops said.<\/p>\n

Investigators initially struggled to identify the victim, whose remains were badly decomposed, and released a description of her body in an effort to identify her.<\/p>\n

Cops said she was either Black or Hispanic, between 4-feet-5 and 5-feet-2, with dark brown, curly hair with bleached ends and a rose tattoo on her upper left buttocks.<\/p>\n

Police also found a ring with a small heart-shaped purple stone and a barbell piercing on the woman\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

\"InIn hopes of identifying human remains, police released an image of a tattoo as well as two pieces of jewlery. The remains were found inside a garbage bag in Queens. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

An NYPD spokesman could not immediately say how Purdie\u2019s remains were identified or how she died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decomposing body found stuffed in a garbage bag and dumped on the side of a Queens highway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-75938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938","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=75938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}