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Body Found in Harlem Building Stuffed Into 55-Gallon Drum

Jess Wisloski

By Jess Wisloski on March 3, 2013 3:50pm

A body was discovered by police in a large container inside an Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. building Saturday March 2, 2013...

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CENTRAL HARLEM — A body was found chopped up and stuffed in a 55-gallon drum inside a Harlem apartment on Saturday night by police responding to a 911 report of a bad odor, police and reports said.

The body was found at 9:47 p.m. by investigators inside an apartment at Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and West 140th Street, police said.

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One of the tenants of the unit showed police into a back bedroom, according to the NY Daily News, and another tenant who the paper described as "emotionally disturbed" was taken into custody by police.

Nobody had been arrested and nobody was in custody as of Sunday night, police told DNAinfo.com New York.

 

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