The medical examiner was scheduled to perform an autopsy Saturday on the body of a woman who was found under a bridge Friday morning in the Herring Run Park in Baltimore.
Police have yet to reveal the results of that autopsy.
Detectives from Baltimore Police Department’s special task force assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of several prostitutes were at the crime scene Friday morning. Several detectives were looking in the area where the body was found for possible clues.
They declined to comment on the case.
Police said the victim is a black woman who appeared to be in her mid-30s. Investigators did not immediately have a cause at death, but investigators said there were marks around her neck indicating she may have been strangled.
Her death has yet to be ruled a homicide, and is waiting on the outcome of the medical examiner’s review of the case.
The Examiner reported in a three-part series last week that 26 women linked to prostitution have been slain in the last decade and five have been strangled since April. The task force is taking a hard look at all of the cases in hopes of finding clues that could lead them to a suspect.
The Examiner series focused on the perils of the city’s underground sex trade and the fear of a predator or predators stalking sex workers.
Earlier this month, police charged William Brown, 41 of Gwynn Oaks, in connection with two homicides in 2004 and a brutal rape in 2003. So far, of the 26 homicides, only six cases have been closed with an arrest.
Police spokesman Detective Donnie Moses said officers received a call around 7 a.m. from a jogger who saw a body lying on a path in the park directly under a bridge on the 3500 block of Harford Road in the northeast section of the city.
“A jogger spotted something from the bridge, went down into the park to investigate and discovered the body,” Moses said.
So far police have not released the identity of the victim.
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