THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 15, 1994 TAG: 9406150463
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ROBERT LITTLE, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940615 LENGTH: SUFFOLK
A man walking on the path about 6 a.m. found the body of the woman, who police said had died a few hours earlier from some type of head wound.
{REST} Police said she appeared to have been murdered.
The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Norfolk for an autopsy.
The site where the woman was found - a path near the old Lincoln Grocery building in Pughsville - is the same site where another body was found two years ago, police said. The body of a man killed in Portsmouth was dumped there in 1992.
``It's quiet, it's secluded and it's off the highway,'' said Suffolk police spokesman Mike Simpkins. ``People go there when they don't want to be seen.''
The site is near the Chesapeake-Suffolk border, just south of Pughsville Road and west of Interstate 664.
The woman, who police said was between 20 and 30 years old, was about 100 yards from the closest house, Simpkins said.
None of the nearby residents reported seeing or hearing any commotion.
She was wearing a pink and blue sun dress, white sandals and hoop earrings, but was not carrying a purse or wallet with any identification, police said.
The woman was black, had short hair, was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds.
Police said they did not know whether the wound in her head was a gunshot, but said it appeared something had punctured her skull.
They will not know how long she had been dead until the autopsy, but said the body had not begun to decompose - suggesting she had been dead only a few hours.
A coroner will determine the cause of death and try to identify the woman using fingerprints or other methods.
{KEYWORDS} MURDER UNIDENTIFIED BODY
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