Vermont State Police say they are investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found along the side of a road in Woodbury.
Authorities have released few details of the ongoing investigation, which they reported began around 3:30 p.m. Thursday after police received a call that a body had been found at a roadside pull-off along Route 14.
First responders who arrived at the scene confirmed that the person, a woman, was deceased, according to a state press release issued Thursday night.
Police have called the woman’s death “suspicious,” the release stated. No one was in custody.
The woman’s identity has not been released pending further investigation and notification of her relatives, the release stated.
The woman’s body was expected to be taken to the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington for an autopsy to confirm her identity and determine the cause and manner of her death, according to the release.
