Police are seeking public's help to identify female victim. | Pexels
Police are seeking public's help to identify female victim. | Pexels
Georgia law enforcement officers are still seeking the public’s help in identifying a teenager who was murdered and discovered behind a vacant house.
Investigators in East Point found a female body, but have yet to make a positive identification.
According to a report on Fox 5 Atlanta, a captain with the East Point Police Department has asked the public to focus on the freckles on the victim's face taken from composite drawings. Law enforcement has received tips from as far away as Germany and the United Kingdom, according to the report, but none have been credible. Police also said the woman was wearing a gold necklace that said “2005” and an anklet with “wixked” in beads, according to the report.
Police say they have little else to go on at this point.
"The most challenging aspect of it is we don't know where the incident occurred,” police Capt. Allyn Glover said, according to Fox5 Atlanta. “We're not sure if she was brought there. We don't think that anything happened on that sight.”
The body was discovered just after midnight on Feb. 12 beside a vacant house on Ben Hill Road near Washington Road. The victim appeared to be a teenager who was severely beaten, police said. A subsequent autopsy showed the girl died of blunt force trauma, according to the Fox5 report. It hasn’t been determined if she was sexually assaulted.
Police admit trying to identify the body has been frustrating. "It is a shock to the conscious of ourselves and the detectives working the case," Glover said. “I've had some hard time sleeping at night. You know that there's a family out there without a daughter, a family member.”
Identifying this girl could lead police to her killer. If you recognize her, please call East Point police immediately.
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