NASHVILLE, Tenn. ( WSMV /Gray News) – A death investigation is underway after a decomposed body with no head was discovered behind a McDonald’s in Nashville on Friday morning.

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

According to police, a woman found a “severely decomposed grouping of skeletal remains” in the wooded area behind McDonald’s.

Homicide 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 police.

The investigation is ongoing.

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