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The woman’s nude body was lying a few feet from a large tree in a grassy area covered with leaves on the right side of the dirt road just over a steep rise. She was lying on her back with her arms extended up from her body. Her legs were slightly apart and extended, but it didn’t appear her body had been “posed.” There was a black-and-tan striped shoelace or bootlace around her neck. Police couldn’t figure out if there were two laces or one lace that had been wrapped around her neck twice. There were leaves on the left side of her head and maggot eggs on her face, genitals, and the other openings on her body.

Police also found empty shopping bags and facial tissues near the woman’s body, which they collected as evidence. About a hundred feet away from her body in the shoulder-length grass next to the road and near a bean field, police found a white tennis shoe with blue striping on it. A short distance away, police discovered the other tennis shoe in a thicket. It appeared that someone had tossed each shoe separately into the brush from the road because police didn’t find any evidence that anyone had trampled on the scrub in the area.

The woman’s body was sealed and photographed, then recovered by employees of a local funeral parlor. Detectives finished up a little after two-thirty in the morning. They went back to the Peoria Police Department (PPD) to try and identify the body. They looked through mug shots and missing persons reports, but they couldn’t figure out who she was.