Woman seen walking streets with skull on stick leads police to body
It sounds like a Halloween prank but Sacramento police say it was all too real.
Authorities say a homeless woman led them to a decomposed body after she was seen walking down the street with a human skull on a stick.
“There was a transient female walking down the 2900 block of Connie Drive. She actually had a skull in her possession," Sacramento police Sgt Bryce Heinlein said. “A call like this is not something that happens every day."
"We hope we can get down to the bottom of what caused this person to become deceased."
The woman then led police to this abandoned homeless camp. Picture: Fox 5
Sgt Heinlein said police stopped her at an abandoned house and the woman told them she had found the skull.
She then led officers to a homeless camp a couple blocks away. That's where officers found the rest of a decomposing body.
A neighbor, who was identified by Fox 40 as "Warren", said he had noticed a smell coming from the camp but had thought it was a "dead cat".
“I went to walk back there and thought, Damn! What the hell is that smell? It make me sick to my stomach, so I turned my ass around and came back here,” he said.
Another neighbour, who was identified only as "Philip", said he knew the woman and believed her name was “Victoria” and was shocked when he saw what she was holding.
“Twenty cop cars out here. And the cops got her out there," he said. "They’re taking pictures of her holding a head. Then they get her hands and CSI showing up."
The coroner will determine the identity of the remains and the cause of death.
With Associated Press
