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Woman's Body Moved to Brower Park After Heroin Overdose, NYPD Says

By  Kathleen Culliton and Aidan Gardiner | July 25, 2016 2:30pm 

BROOKLYN — A woman's body was moved on Saturday to a Crown Heights park after she died of a heroin overdose, police said.

The still-unidentified 35-year-old woman, whose boyfriend was also found dead in a Lower East Side housing project with a heroin needle in his arm, was discovered about 2:30 p.m. lying in Brower Park with a rag over her face and a sheet over her body by a dogwalker, NYPD officials said.

"She was found in the park, covered up, as if she was placed there," said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce during a Monday press conference. "We're trying to figure out exactly what happened."

She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

NYPD officials did not immediately provide additional details about the death of her boyfriend.

The woman was discovered a day before another woman was found dead in McCarren Park Sunday morning, in an unrelated incident.

Investigators believe that woman's medical conditions became exacerbated when she mixed prescription drugs with alcohol.

"We'll know more when the autopsy is done," Boyce said.