Identified! NY - Dutchess Co., Body found in state park, Jul'11 - Jasmine Nunez

The New York State Police in conjunction with the New York State Park Police, the Dutchess County District Attorneys Office and the Dutchess County Medical Examiners Office, began a joint Homicide Investigation on 06/12/11. In the early morning hours of 06/12/11, fire personnel from the Lagrange Fire Department encountered what they believed to be a brush fire in James Baird State Park (adjacent to the Taconic State Parkway), only to find a badly burned and unidentifiable human body.

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- Police believe a body found in a Dutchess County state park on June 12 is a missing woman from the Bronx.

The New York State Police has tentatively identified the woman found in James Baird State Park as 22-year-old Jasmine Maxine Nunez.

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Her badly burned body was found in James Baird State Park, in upstate New York, seven days after she disappeared. Firefighters had gone to control a brush fire near the Taconic Parkway, and saw her lying in the grass, wearing Levi's 524 jeans, a cami shirt and Victoria's Secret underwear. She was unidentifiable...

During the 15 days prior, her killer posted comments on her Facebook page to make it look like she was still alive, just too busy with college classes and work to pick up the phone.

Only when he shot himself after being stopped in traffic by police did her family find out she had actually been dead for more than two weeks.

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