Baltimore Police are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body wrapped in a blanket in a trash can outside a vacant home in Northwest Baltimore on Thursday, police said Friday.
Police were called to the 5400 block of Jonquil Ave., in the city’s Arlington neighborhood, about 8:30 a.m. after a trash collector emptied one of the city’s green trash cans into his truck and noticed the fully clothed body wrapped in the blanket, said Det. Donny Moses, a police spokesman.
The home where the trash can was located is vacant and “often used by transients and [drug] addicts,” Moses said.
There were no signs of trauma on the woman’s body, and a cause of death has not been determined, Moses said. Police are still awaiting the result of an autopsy by the office of the chief medical examiner, he said.
Still, the nature of the body being wrapped and placed in a trash can has spurred homicide detectives to begin an investigation, Moses said.
The woman was not identified.
