City workers found a body was found in a wooded area north of a HyVee grocery store in Burlington, Iowa.
City crews were checking sanitary sewer sites in the area near Agency Street on Thursday, January 22, 2015 when they found the male body in a creek bed, according to a statement from Lt. Jeff Klein with the Burlington Police Department. Burlington Police were notified of the situation around 8 a.m.
The body, which Klein said was just skeletal remains, was removed from the creek bed. Investigators were unable to determine the identity of the deceased person nor could they determine the cause of death.
Klein said that the body “had been at that location for a considerable period of time.”
Autopsy results will help with further investigation, KIein said.
