MACON,Ga. — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a headless human body was found behind a Burger King in Macon Monday.
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Coroner Leon Jones said the remains were found Monday on Romeiser Drive, off Eisenhower Parkway, according to WGXA,
Officials said that someone discovered the body while walking through the woods and then called 911.
The body had no skull and “hardly any extremities left” and was very badly decomposed, according to the coroner.
Officials said they were unable to determine race or gender, but there were a pair of men’s tennis shoes next to the body that would make them think the body was that of a man.
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The body was covered in dirt and officials said they have to be careful in lifting the remains out so they could preserve evidence.
“We’re going to need to get a shovel and dig around the body so we can get everything in the body bag so the GBI Crime Lab will have all of the body to process,” Jones told WGXA.
Jones didn’t give a time frame of how long the body may have been there.
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“But we do know that this body has been here for a long time, that’s it,” Jones told WGXA.
Investigators ask that if you have any information regarding the case, please contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500.
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