Police have released sketches of distinct tattoos and photos of items found with the body of a woman discovered last week in an abandoned refrigerator in a New Jersey forest in a public appeal to discover her identity.
The woman was Caucasian or Hispanic, about 5 feet, 1 inch tall, police said, and had two tattoos. There was a koi fish on her upper right shoulder blade, and a rose tattoo on the left from her chest to her hip.
“Additionally, a distinctive yoga mat and necklace were recovered at the scene,” police said.
The remains were discovered in Belleplain State Forest last Sunday, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s State Park Police told NJ.com at the time.
The 23,000-acre forest lies in the Pinelands National Reserve and has been a staple of outdoor recreation since its establishment in 1928. It sees 155,901 visitors annually for everything from hiking and biking to birding and fishing, according to the Bergen Record.
State troopers discovered the body just before 3 p.m. on Dec. 22 in the woodland a few miles in from the southern Jersey Shore, inside an abandoned refrigerator.
Authorities on Monday still had not divulged the manner of the person’s death or determined a cause.
Hers was the second body to be found in a state woodland this month. On Dec. 14 hunters happened upon the badly decomposed body of 35-year-old Kuldeep Kumar of India in the Greenwood Wildlife Management Area, about 60 miles northeast of Belleplain State Forest. Four Indiana men were arrested in his murder after police found Kumar had died of several gunshot wounds to the chest.