Police are investigating after the body of a 40-year-old woman was found in an alleyway behind homes in Philadelphia's Frankford neighborhood on Sunday morning.
According to police, officers responded to the scene after a caller told them a woman's body was located in the rear of her home along the 1900 block of E. Pike Street.
“And just seeing how she was tied up and her pants were around her ankles, it actually really broke my heart," one neighbor said. "No body deserves death like that at all. Like at all.”
First responders to the call found an unidentified woman unresponsive and she was pronounced at the scene at 8:57 a.m.
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Neighbors in the area say a crime like this highlights the ongoing problems they have been having with that particular alley in the area.
“We’ll just see them just propped up in the back, unfortunately either doing drugs or even having intercourse with people back there," one neighbor said.
They also mentioned how there are no lights or cameras in that area.
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Officials said that an investigation is ongoing and they have not yet determined the woman's cause of death.
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