NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A death investigation is underway after a decomposed body with no head was discovered in the Hillhurst neighborhood on Friday morning.

Officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department responded to the call around 10 a.m. at 3300 Dickerson Pike.

According to Nashville PD, a woman found a “severely decomposed grouping of skeletal remains” in the wooded area behind McDonald’s on the corner of Dickerson Pike and Homestead Road.

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Homicide Unit detectives later found a human skull near where the remains were located, a little closer to the parking lot. The skull was in a “deep state of decomposition,” according to Nashville PD.

The investigation into the person’s identity and the circumstances

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