The dead man found hog-tied on the side of a highway earlier this week has been identified as a 57-year-old Queens resident as NYPD detectives launch a homicide investigation, police said Friday.
Emmanuel Moncoeur’s hands and feet were tied together when his decomposed body was found in the weeds off a section of the Clearview Expressway near Union Turnpike that cuts through Cunningham Park at about 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, cops said.
Moncoeur lives in Glendale, about eight miles from where his body was discovered, cops said.
He had suffered a fractured skull, but an exact cause of death was not immediately revealed Friday.
Detectives and crime scene technicians investigate after a body was found on the side of the Clearview Expressway on Tuesday. (Shawn Inglima/New York Daily News)
A woman with mechanical trouble discovered Moncoeur’s body after she broke down on the northbound side of the expressway just before exit 2, cops said.
As her father showed up to work on the car, the woman found Moncoeur’s body face down in the grass, police said. He had been hog-tied and covered in bleach.
His body was badly decomposed. Police on Tuesday had set up a blue tent on the shoulder of the Clearview Expressway to protect the remains and other evidence from the elements.
Men in hazmat suits were going into the tent with hazmat bags while NYPD detectives waited outside. An NYPD Crime Scene Unit truck was parked outside the tent.
No arrests have been made.