Construction workers find skeleton in empty house
Posted January 08, 2008 10:00 pm
Construction workers renovating a home on Chicago's South Side yesterday (Tuesday) found what appears to be a human skeleton inside the building.
A police department spokeswoman says the body was badly decomposed and a determination has not been made on the gender or approximate age of the victim.
Police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor says police are conducting a death investigation, she said.
An autopsy is scheduled for today (Wednesday).
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