Wheaton police are investigating the death of an unidentified person whose body was found burning in Lincoln Marsh on Wednesday morning.
By Wheaton police are conducting a death investigation after a body was found Wednesday in the Lincoln Marsh area near the Union Avenue trailhead.Officers responded around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday to the area of Lincoln Marsh near the Union Avenue trailhead in Wheaton , police said.Police said the body was found in a marsh area, and the person who found it saw it on fire.
You could hide a body in here and it wouldn't be found for a year if you did it right, but apparently they just laid it out in the field and set it on fire apparently.Wheaton police say the still unidentified body was found early Wednesday morning when someone waking on the trail in Lincoln Marsh noticed a fire. When they got closer, police say the walker found a body engulfed in flames. Police and firefighters surveyed the scene, the charred area where the body was found in the reeds was now cleared away. Another walker, named Joe, who frequents the area with his dog told ABC7 multiple police departments were there well into the evening. 'Sometimes we walk at night here,' Joe said. 'There were still police cars on the path which you can see is very narrow and it was clear there was something a little weirder.' Cut reeds could be seen piled near a blackened area several yards from the trail, the results of the immediate search in what police are calling a death investigation. 'I can only imagine what the poor person who found the body was feeling and will be feeling,' Joe said.Missing woman found dead in Busse Woods identified, police conducting death investigation Wheaton Police Chief P. J. Youker released a statement, saying 'At this time, we have no reason to believe there is a threat to the public,' but added 'Fire by its nature is destructive, and it adds a layer of complexity to an investigation which requires more time and resource
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