Police find a mannequin suspiciously wrapped like a dead body
By Brianna Hamblin |
Posted: Sun 3:30 PM, Aug 26, 2018 |
Updated: Sun 4:44 PM, Aug 26, 2018

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) Police responded to a call for a possible body at McIntire Road Recycling Center around 1 p.m. When police got to the alleged body and cut open the cloth it was wrapped in, it turned out to be a mannequin.

Sergeant Tony Newberry said this mannequin was not just trash being thrown out.

"The body was covered up. It did look staged," said Newberry. "There was things tied around the neck and around the feet, and it was made to make it difficult for us to actually I.D. anything just at face value."

Before discovering the mannequin, officials had to secure the scene expecting the worse. Forensics and detectives came out and any potential evidence was collected.

Newberry said they will be looking for whoever disposed of the mannequin. Whoever it was may possibly face charges.
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