Child’s Decomposed Body Found in Duffel Bag in Philadelphia Neighborhood

Child’s Decomposed Body Found in Duffel Bag in Philadelphia Neighborhood
North 38th Street in the Mantua section of Philadelphia in October 2021. Google Maps/Screenshot via NTD
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PHILADELPHIA—A badly decomposed body of a child was found inside a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site Monday in west Philadelphia, police said.

The body was found in the city’s Mantua neighborhood by workers with the city’s Community Life Improvement Program. It wasn’t immediately clear how the child died, how long the body had been at the site or how it ended up there, police said. Officials also did not describe where the discovery was made.