A man walking in Leakin Park yesterday evening found what turned out to be an unidentified body wrapped in heavy plastic.
Police said the wrapping was left intact in order to preserve any evidence and was to have been opened today at the state medical examiner's office, where an autopsy was expected to provide the cause of death.
Police said that unless the body bore identification, it would be fingerprinted. Police said the body was found about 5:15 p.m. lying a few feet off the 600 block of Ellicott Drive near a wooded area by a man taking a walk. The man called police, who cordoned off the area and searched for evidence.