A dismembered body found dumped along a Queens highway in August belonged to a troubled stripper who was identified by her unique rose tattoo, her grieving cousin told The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n
Christina Purdie, 27, had been \u201cbattling a lot of things\u201d and was working as an exotic dancer when she disappeared in May after cutting off ties with her mom \u2014 who never suspected the butchered body discovered<\/a> along a stretch of the Jackie Robinson Parkway was her daughter, said the relative, Geneva Purdie.<\/p>\n Christina Purdie, 27, was killed and dismembered, with her body parts strewn along a highway in Queens. Facebook\/Christina Purdie<\/p>\n A unique rose tattoo on her body helped ID Purdie. NYPD<\/p>\n \u201cShe just cut herself off [from] the entire family,\u201d Geneva, 41, said of Christina. \u201cI know that she was stripping and selling her body. I don\u2019t know if she was, like, escorting, but she was in that lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n The cousin said that at some point, the family saw the photo that cops had put out of a distinctive rose tattoo on the dead woman\u2019s body and recognized it as Christina\u2019s, leading her distraught mom to identify her daughter\u2019s remains at the morgue.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know if it was a serial killer or someone that was close to our family because it seemed as if it\u2019s just sitting there,\u201d she said of the murder case. \u201cLike, it\u2019s going to be one of those cold cases.\u201d<\/p>\n Christina\u2019s death was ruled a homicide, but her killer remains a mystery.<\/p>\n A city Department of Transportation worker made the grisly discovery while mowing the grass near the area\u2019s famed Cypress Hills Cemetery around 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, according to police.<\/p>\n