Body found near missing Long Island woman's car

MEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A volunteer search party on Thursday found a female body in a wooded area near where a missing 21-year-old woman’s car was discovered abandoned on Long Island, Suffolk County police said.

The search party, comprised of 40 to 50 people, found the body, described as a “young female,” in a thickly wooded area off Camden Court in a residential part of Medford and called 911 shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, said Det. Lt. Kevin Beyrer, the commanding officer of the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad.