Police identify woman's body found along Detroit-area road

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) - Police have used fingerprints to identify a woman whose badly beaten body was dumped along a road in suburban Detroit.

Dearborn Heights police Chief Lee Gavin tells The Detroit News that the woman had no identification on her. He says her body was found about 1 a.m. Monday in the western Detroit suburb.

Gavin says she's in her mid-40s. He isn't identifying her, saying police are notifying her family.

The chief says there were scrapes on the woman's face and she was badly bruised.

Gavin says investigators "are assuming the body was dropped off" at the site after the woman was killed elsewhere.