Authorities have identified the decapitated remains as a missing 50-year-old Newark woman.
NEWARK -- The remains found Monday inside the garage of a Newark residence have been identified as belonging to a missing 50-year-old Newark woman, officials said Tuesday afternoon.
The body of Pamela Davis was found wrapped inside a blanket at a residence in the 800 block of South 11th Street late Monday evening, said Thomas Fennelly, Chief Assistant Prosecutor for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
Police have been searching for Davis since Oct. 30, when she was first reported missing, he confirmed.
The specifics of Davis' death were not immediately made available. It remains unclear whether Davis' body was dismembered before or after her death.
An investigation into the cause of her death is under investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Task Force, officials said.
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Sources close to the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told NJ Advance Media that Davis' body was found decapitated.
Authorities declined to comment on the condition of Davis' remains. But Davis was a resident of a home located on the same block where her body was found, Fennelly said.
Reached at Davis' home Tuesday afternoon, a man who identified himself as her son declined to comment.
Newark police officers made the grim discovery late Monday evening after receiving reports of a foul smell emanating from a garage at the South 11th Street residence, officials said.
Investigators from the Newark Police Department and Essex County Prosecutor's Office were still at the scene Tuesday afternoon.
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