India, March 24 -- In a gruesome discovery, a woman's body was found floating in the East River near a busy Queens park on Sunday morning, March 23. The body was spotted about 50 yards away from an abandoned blood-soaked Mercedes, police said, according to the New York Post.

An NYPD spokesperson told the outlet that around 11:15 am, police responded to a 911 call about an unconscious person in the water near Fort Totten at Cross Island Boulevard and Totten Road. The body was first seen by a pedestrian, floating along the rocky shoreline near a popular jogging path. The path reportedly winds through the heart of Little Bay Park by the Throgs Neck Bridge.

Officers arrived to find an unresponsive woman believed to be around 45. She was dec...