Cops: Body found in Manorville park
A Suffolk County police car safeguards entrance to Manorville Hills County Park on Route 111 in Manorville where human remains were found by a jogger. (March 22, 2012) Credit: James Carbone
A jogger discovered a body Wednesday, police said, in a county park in Manorville -- a few miles southeast of where remains were discovered last month near another county park.
Investigators said they have not determined the sex of the person discovered in the Manorville Hills County Park or the cause of death.
The Suffolk Homicide Squad and the Crime Lab were processing the scene Wednesday night, police said, and the body was removed to the county medical examiner's office for an autopsy.
Skeletal remains were found in Manorville Feb. 17, on North Street off Wading River Road near Cushman Murphy County Park.
A man and his dog found those remains on woodland that's part of the Upton Ecological and Research Reserve, a protected pine barrens overseen by Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The bones were found 300 feet from North Street on the 530-acre tract, which is north of the Long Island Expressway, police said. They are believed to have been left at the scene at least five years ago, based on vegetation in the area.
No information was released on the exact location of the body discovered Wednesday. Manorville Hills County Park is part of the Long Island Pine Barrens and contains the longest expanse of roadless land on Long Island, according to the Long Island Pine Barrens Society website.
The partial remains of Jessica Taylor, 20, of New York City, were found more than eight years ago in Manorville, near Halsey Manor Road and the Long Island Expressway.
The remains of a woman known only as Jane Doe No. 6 were found near a Manorville sump discharge basin Nov. 19, 2000. Two unidentified men were found in a quiet patch of Manorville woods near Halsey Manor Road and the LIE in 2000 and 2003.
With Ellen Yan
