Dismembered body of woman found in duffel bag in Queens

A girl’s physique was discovered shoved inside a blood-soaked duffel bag in Queens, dumped close to a preferred strolling path, police mentioned. 

Two totally different native residents known as cops Saturday morning to alert them to the grotesque discover on Metropolitan Avenue at Union Turnpike close to Forest Park Drive. However police solely got here out after the second name, in line with Forest Hills resident Glenn Van Nostrand, who was the second particular person to come upon the grisly scene.

Van Nostrand, 51, mentioned he’d been strolling by close by Forest Park together with his two looking canine, and was on his method house, when he seen what he mentioned was a Bauer hockey duffel bag.

At first Van Nostrand thought it was only a heavy bag that had been discarded, however his two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Philip and Iris, acquired so agitated that he determined to look inside.

Metropolitan Avenue and Forest Park in Queens, a body was found on the sidewalk. April 16, 2022 nypostinhouse (Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post
The physique was discovered early Saturday.
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The body was found on Metropolitan Avenue and Forest Park in Queens.
The physique was discovered on Metropolitan Avenue and Forest Park in Queens.
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“They're scent hounds,” Van Nostrand instructed The Put up. “They see the world by their noses.”

When Van Nostrand opened the bag he noticed a foot after which a hip, nonetheless hooked up.

“However to me it appeared a model,” he mentioned. “It didn’t look very fleshy. It was extra like a crash check dummy. I assumed it was perhaps some tools getting used for one thing. I didn’t suppose something of it.” 

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Two residents made calls concerning the bag.
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Then, Van Nostrand mentioned, he noticed black, ankle-length denims, a belt and a lady’s waist. He didn’t see the blood on the opposite facet of the bag till after he had opened it. he mentioned. The physique was within the fetal place, he mentioned. The bag had wheels, he mentioned.

“I assumed, ‘Oh my goodness,’ and known as police at 8:05am and mentioned there’s a physique on this bag,” he mentioned. Van Nostrand mentioned that “one other gentleman” had known as about an hour earlier however apparently cops didn’t come at that time.

As soon as detectives arrived, Van Nostrand dropped his canine off at house earlier than taking place to the precinct to present a full report. However whereas he was making an attempt to stroll house, his canine had different concepts.

“They stored pulling pulling me,” he mentioned. The canine led him to a spot about 100 yards from the place the physique within the bag was discovered, on Metropolitan Avenue close to the Jackie Robinson Parkway, the place patches of apparently recent blood had been discovered.

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Cops responded after the second name to authorities.
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“A number of the cops adopted me and the canine to it.”

Sources confirmed authorities had been investigating a blood path within the space. The sufferer has not been publicly recognized by police.

“It’s stunning,” Van Nostrand mentioned. “My private feeling is a damaged coronary heart for whoever that is. My coronary heart was in my throat your entire time. “

A close-by resident mentioned she was frightened.

“It’s freaky. As a lady, it’s scary. You hearken to true crime stuff and also you don’t wish to see it in actual life, particularly in your neighborhood,” mentioned horrified resident Linda Gorniaczyk on the crime scene.

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Occasion planner Mara Newman mentioned the invention was “horrifying.”
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One native has mentioned she was already planning to maneuver to Florida earlier than the chilling discovery — and now can’t wait to depart New York

“It’s completely horrifying,” occasion planner Mara Newman instructed The Put up. “Nothing like this may occur on this neighborhood. Folks pay some huge cash to dwell in Forest Hills. … I’m packed already.

“I’m sick to my abdomen,” she added. I don’t really feel protected. I’m not going to be strolling right here at night time. I can’t consider there's a … physique thrown on the facet of the highway.”

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