“At least 7 years old…”: macabre discovery in the cellar of a building

Dozens of people have lived with a corpse under their feet for nearly a decade. During a police investigation into a murder, police in Queensland, Australia, discovered a corpse under a building in the suburbs of Brisbane. According to the medical examiner’s report, the woman’s body had been there for “at least seven years”. The body, wrapped in a waterproof plastic bag, was partially buried and hidden behind a brick wall, indicates the police report, which confirms that it was cleaners who gave the alert when they discovered human bones.

Since the discovery of these remains, the police have been trying to establish the identity of this woman, by gathering information discovered during their investigation. For the moment, Australian investigators have ruled that the latter was a woman of Caucasian type, who measured between 1.55 and 1.65m and was between 30 and 55 years old at the time of his death. On top of that, she wore dark colored hair and had prescription glasses. Detective Andrew Massingham confessed that the task was not easy: “One of the biggest pieces of the puzzle is victim identification.”

The corpse had been lying there for more than seven years

The exact circumstances of the victim’s death are also quite unclear. So far, the police have only revealed that the body presented a “simple trauma which made his death considered suspicious”. In an address to the local press, the police said: “Someone tried to cover up their crime. They took care to wrap the body in a certain way and transport it to a hard-to-reach area. The question of whether they intended to leave it there , or coming for it later and they just didn’t, is part of what we’re going to look at.” While the police are interrogating all the residents of the neighborhood, it will certainly take many months before elucidating this strange affair.