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December 7, 2006

Prison work crew discovers body in Providence / Photo

Journal photo / Mary Murphy
The Providence police and Rhode Island State Police investigate the area where a body was found this morning off Elmwood Avenue near the entrance to Roger Williams Park.

PROVIDENCE -- A decomposed body was found off Elmwood Avenue this morning by a work crew from the Adult Correctional Institutions, according to the state police.

Inmates from the prison were clearing brush in the area near Route 95 when they found the body at about 11:30 a.m., according to state police Capt. Stephen J. Lynch.

The police don't yet know whether foul play was involved, according to Lynch. The state police and the Providence police are investigating. Investigators were searching the area with metal detectors.

The state Medical Examiner's Office has taken the body.

-- With reports from Journal staff photographer Mary Murphy

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