{"id":78203,"date":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78203\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:20:07","slug":"human-remains-found-along-nyc-parkway-idd-as-missing-brooklyn-woman-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78203\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Remains Found Along NYC Parkway ID&#8217;d As Missing Brooklyn Woman, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Months after she disappeared, a woman whose remains <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/new-york-city\/human-remains-found-nyc-parkway-nypd-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were found<\/a> in a bag along the Queens-Brooklyn border in August has been identified, and police have ruled her death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the remains belong to 27-year-old Christina Purdie, a resident of South Midwood in Brooklyn who had been reported missing months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>City Department of Transportation workers discovered her body in a black garbage bag on the westbound side of the Jackie Robinson Parkway near Highland Boulevard around 10:40 a.m. on Aug. 6, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled Purdie\u2019s death a homicide, indicating investigators believe she was murdered, though the exact cause of death has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>After the discovery, police <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/new-york-city\/photos-police-look-id-woman-s-remains-found-nyc-highway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released images<\/a> of some of Purdie\u2019s personal items, including jewelry and a rose tattoo on her upper left buttocks, to help confirm her identity.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesperson said additional details about her disappearance and the circumstances of her death are being withheld while the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this homicide investigation can submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers can dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Months after she disappeared, a woman whose remains were found in a bag along the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-78203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78203","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=78203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}