Skeletal Remains Found in Central Park Behind Metropolitan Museum of Art: NYPD Official

The skeletal stays of an individual had been found inside a tent situated behind the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, based on a senior police official.

A jogger found the tent in a wooded space inside Central Park close to 79th Avenue and East Drive simply earlier than 12:30 p.m. Friday, a senior NYPD official mentioned. The jogger informed a Parks Division worker, who discovered skeletal stays contained in the tent.

The NYC health worker examined the stays, and confirmed that they had been of a human, however had been extremely decomposed, based on the senior police official.

An investigation is ongoing.