Sketch artist hoped to help ID embalmed head

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police in one western Pennsylvania community are hoping that a sketch artist’s rendering will help them identify the embalmed head of a woman that was found in the woods last week.

Economy Borough police Chief Michael O’Brien tells The Associated Press the drawing isn’t completed, but will be released to media outlets once it is.

The head appears to be that of woman in her late 60s or early 70s, but police have no idea where it’s from — especially since it was embalmed.

The chief says, “What’s bizarre is not that we’ve found a head, it’s that we’ve found a head that’s embalmed. That’s what’s really strange about the whole thing.”

Police are contacting medical schools to see if the head is from a cadaver, and are entering DNA into an FBI database for missing persons.