He witnessed a horrific crime 40 years ago and finally decided to denounce him

New York police discovered on Tuesday the remains of a person buried in the courtyard of a Queens District residenceafter a woman reported seeing how they had been buried when she was eleven years old, the CBA reported on Wednesday.

Last Monday, a woman whose identity was not revealed called on the authorities to to report that when he was eleven years old and lived in this house, he woke up one night and saw how his mother's boyfriend had dismembered a body. and he placed it in bags that he then buried.

The excavations took place in a house in 115th Street, South of Jamaica Avenue, in Richmond Hill.

Specialized units of police attended Tuesdayat the address indicated by the woman, they closed part of the street and after digging in the patio makes the discovery.

The human remains were transported "with a lot of attention"according to the agents, Medico-legal office of the citysince they are related to a case of the seventies.

This is also They brought several bagsBut it's not clear if they are related to the crime, the chain added.

The woman and her mother no longer live in this house and apparently she had never talked about what had happened.

Police did not say on what happened and did not put forward any details about the ongoing investigation.

The investigators of the crime scene They have eliminated several bags of evidence, although it is not known how this evidence It could be related to a crime committed so long ago.

Because of the old age of their bones, New York's medical examiners told Telemundo that will need anthropologists to help identify the person. At this point, the investigators believe that the murder took place between 1977 and 1979.

The detectives check old handwritten police reports of that time, in addition to missing persons reports that match the date of the murder.

The owners of the house they could not be contacted comment because part of the the street is always closed.

The medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the identity of the victim.

With information from EFEUSA