Body Found In Bartow Landfill Is Unidentified Woman: Sheriff

CARTERSVILLE, GA — Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap announced Wednesday that the human remains found this week at the county landfill were those of an unidentified woman, according to media reports. The woman's remains were cut into "numerous pieces," Millsap said, and were stuffed into bags and left at a local recycling center, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The sheriff's office released a sketch Wednesday of what the woman may have looked like. She is described as between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall, and weighing about 150 pounds with brown or reddish hair.

The unidentified woman is believed to have been between 18 and 35 years old, the sheriff's office said.

Law enforcement authorities are hoping that the woman can be identified by her tattoos. She had two names tattooed on each of her shoulder blades and another tattoo on her chest, say media reports.

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On Saturday or possibly earlier, the pieces of the woman's body were packed into individual bags and left in a container at the Cedar Creek Collection Center in Cartersville, the AJC reported.

On Monday, the container was taken to the Bartow landfill on Allatoona Dam Road, where a sanitation worker found a body part while dumping the container, the AJC reported.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is working to determine the cause of death, and detectives with the sheriff's office are combing through reports of missing persons, the AJC reported. Millsap said the FBI also has been contacted.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the Bartow County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division at 770-382-5050 ext. 6029.

Image: A sketch released Wednesday by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office shows what an unidentified woman, whose remains were found Monday in the county landfill, may have looked like (Bartow County Sheriff's Office).