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Body found outside Massapequa house identified as Irene Luetje

Irene Luetje was found lying under the overhang

Photo credit: Handout; Jim Staubitser | Irene Luetje was found lying under the overhang of a vacant, Sandy-damaged house when contractors working next door heard water spilling out of the flooded house, police said. (Feb. 14, 2013)

The body found Thursday outside a Massapequa house was identified Tuesday as a North Massapequa woman who had been missing for more than a month, Nassau police said.

Fingerprints helped identify the decomposing body of Irene Luetje, 60, a Farmingdale State College secretary. But the reasons her body was discovered on Ocean Avenue, five miles from her home, remains a mystery to her family and...

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