A decomposing body was found in an old New Jersey police headquarters that has been boarded up for more than three decades after it was devastated by fire.
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It was about 5:15 p.m. Monday when officers from the Paterson Police Department were called to 111 Washington St., the site of their department’s old headquarters.
Police officials said they have not yet determined the identity of the body, exactly how long it has been inside the building or how the person died.
The Passaic County Medical Examiner’s Office removed the remains from the vacant building, according the story.
The former Paterson Police headquarters building.
“I can guarantee you it wasn’t an inmate”.
Reyes added that the body “was totally decomposed”. The police station was abandoned after a major fire back in 1980 and has been vacant and boarded up ever since, but the building was recently sold to a developer who wants to put in some modern storefront businesses. “I think it’s a good spirit”.
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“We feel there is a spirit haunting this building here”, said Alvonesha Brown, who works in the “haunted” building as a housing counselor. “It’s unusual. I would like to know who it is and the story behind what happened”, said Brown, 24.
