BOSTON — Officials on Monday revealed new details regarding the wrapped body hauled in by fishing boat off the Massachusetts coast Thursday.
The body was that of a woman, around 60 years old and had ‘numerous’ cancer tumors, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.
“The body had been embalmed and appeared consistent with a burial at sea. We consider this matter non-suspicious and closed,” the DA’s office said in a press release.
A fishing vessel from Boston reported pulling in a body in its nets about 40 miles off the Bay State’s Coast Thursday, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office.
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