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August 1, 2007

Update: Body found behind Johnston school ID'd

JOHNSTON -- Investigators have identified the decomposing body of a woman found today behind the Winsor Hill School, Police Chief Richard S. Tamburini said.

But her identity has not yet been released pending notification of next of kin.

The cause of the person’s death was not apparent at the scene, Tamburini said. But police are treating it as a homicide.

The body was in a state of decomposition when a Johnston police sergeant went to the school this morning in response to a janitor’s telephone call, Tamburini said.

Investigators have evidence suggesting someone brought the body to the location behind the school from somewhere else, said Tamburini, who declined to elaborate on the evidence.

“We can say with certainty that it didn’t happen here,” Tamburini said. “It appears a person or persons drove back there and placed a body there. They dumped the body there.”

Tamburini declined to speculate on exactly how long the body had been behind the school at 100 Theresa St. But it was there long enough to decompose, he said. “It was there for a while,” he added.

-- Journal staff writer Mark Reynolds

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