Woman returns home to find cadaver in bed

The body was ordered removed from the Fajardo residence for transfer to the Institute of Forensic Sciences to determine the cause of death and identification.

By The Star Staff

The island police are investigating the discovery on Saturday night of a cadaver in a state of decomposition in a residence on Unión Final Street in Fajardo’s Santa Isidra 1 Urbanization.

According to the authorities’ report, a woman alleged that she returned to her residence after several months of not living there and found a decomposing body lying in a fetal position on a bed in the home.

Officer Giovanni Cantres of the Fajardo Criminal Investigations Corps carried out the preliminary investigation along with prosecutor Félix Sánchez, who ordered the removal of the body and its transfer to the Institute of Forensic Sciences for the cause of death and identification.