KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City have identified a man whose badly decomposed body was found in a wooded area of Swope Park. Police say the body is that of 62-year-old Ronnie Lawrence.
Officers were called to the area around 7 p.m. Monday, and a person at the scene led officers to the body, which was located just off a road. Police say the body was in an advanced state of decomposition, but that investigators were able to determine he had suffered significant trauma.
Police have ruled the death a homicide. Police have not yet released a cause of death.
KANSAS CITY (AP) — Police in Kansas City are investigating the death of a person whose badly decomposed body was found in a wooded area of Swope Park. Police say officers were called to the area around 7 p.m. Monday, and a person at the scene led officers to the body, which was located just off a road.
Police say the body was in an advanced state of decomposition, but that investigators were able to determine that the victim had suffered significant trauma.
Police are treating the death as a homicide. Police say an autopsy will need to determine the cause of death. The victim has not yet been identified.