The mystery of the body found high in a tree

In a street in suburban Sydney a woman’s decomposing body was found, high up in a tree and it has left police and local residents baffled.

The female body was discovered last week and police believe whoever it is died on or around New Year’s Day. It was found 30ft up a tree and officers do not believe that the woman fell from a window from one of the nearby buildings into a tree nor do they believe that the body was placed up into the tree because it would be too difficult to do so.

The most logical explanation is that the woman climbed up the tree then died in its branches. Although there were no reports of anyone ‘living’ in the tree a young boy from the area had commented to his father that he thought he had seen someone in the branches a few months ago. The father, who did not wish to be identified, said: “It’s weird to have someone in such close proximity. It’s got us all wondering who this lady is.”

Other residents however have said that when they have used the laneway to put out their garbage bins they haven’t seen anyone in or near the tree recently. At the beginning of the month many of the residents did start to notice a foul smell lingering around the area however many believed it to be a decomposing animal like a possum had died in the area somewhere nearby.
Another resident, Miss Danyane Bowing, who lives next to the tree believed the mystery woman may have walked through her garden around New Year’s Eve and climbed her fence into the tree. She told the Sydney Morning Herald: “My assumption is it started to smell on Wednesday (January 4), I’m no expert on decomposing bodies in summer time, but when I went out around the start of the New Year I remember thinking that something smelled dead.”

The tree and the surrounding fence have now been removed because both had been contaminated by the woman’s decaying body.

So far extensive inquiries into who the woman may be have drawn a blank, Chief Inspector Dave McBeath said: “We’re matching the body against the missing persons list, but as you can appreciate the ID’s not a good one. The body has decomposed to such an extent that I’m not sure the fingerprints are useable.”

According to details from a post mortem of the dead woman, she was 5ft 8in tall, with long brown hair – held back with a black hair clip with a plastic flower on it, there weren’t any visible tattoos either. The clothes she was wearing were described as a green hooded jumper, a green singlet top, and three-quarter-length black leggings.

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