France France - Palaiseau, Female Body, in garden of Airbnb rental, Feb'16

the friends found a woman’s body “hunched in a dug-out area, her head against the ground, covered in branches and surrounded by wood stumps,”

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A group of friends who rented a house on Airbnb for a party weekend in a French town got a nasty surprise when they discovered the decomposing body of a woman in the garden.

“Her body was found at the bottom of the property which opens out into a woods,” a police source said. Foul play is suspected.

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The friends found the corpse on Saturday afternoon at the bottom of a steep bank at the end of the garden in the three-storey premises in the southern suburb of Palaiseau, 10 miles south of Paris.
The body was curled up, face down, in a shallow grave and had been covered with branches and logs, police said, adding that the victim was dressed but had no shoes on.
Police said they were treating the woman’s death as murder.

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"According to them, the body belongs to a woman of advanced age and was partially decomposed," he said in French. "They told me that they were shocked and that they left."

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