Police hope a distinctive tattoo of a rose will help them identify the skeletal remains of a petite woman found in a trash bag along the Jackie Robinson Highway earlier this month.

The NYPD on Thursday released a photo of the ink as well as several pictures of jewelry belonging to the victim, believed to have been a black or Hispanic woman between 20 and 30 years old, standing between 4-foot-5 and 5-foot-2.

She had dark brown curly hair with bleached ends, with the rose tattoo on her upper left buttocks.

A Department of Transportation worker made the grisly discovery while mowing the grass next to the highway, just steps from Cypress Hills Cemetery, around 10:30 a.m. Aug. 6, cops and sources said. 5

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Photos showed the possible human skeleton in a body bag being taken away by a

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