JERSEY CITY —The state Regional Medical Examiner’s Office in Newark is bringing in a forensic anthropologist to try to identify the remains of a badly decomposed body discovered Saturday beside the Conrail tracks on County Road in Jersey City, according to published reports.
A man’s corpse was found by a worker from County Auto Wreckers in an area outside the fence of the auto wrecking yard off Tonnelle Avenue, officials said, along with a pair of black, heavy-duty work boots, and a pair of black work pants with a 34-inch waist and 32-inch inseam, according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.
The body was too decomposed for the medical examiner to determine the cause of death, and carried no identification.
One of the work boots was missing its shoelace, and a noose found in a tree above the body matched the lace on the boot, DeFazio said, suggesting the death might have been a suicide. The man’s head was also found at the location. No note was found at the scene.
Persons with information that might assist the identification should call the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office’s Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.