Someone walking near Pelican Park in the Mandeville area called cops after spotting a dead woman.
"Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit are investigating after a body was found near Pelican Park and the Northlake Nature Center," Lieutenant Suzanne Carboni said in a news release. "At approximately 3 p.m. Wednesday (November 11), STPSO deputies were dispatched to the park after a person walking on the trails between the park and the nature center located a body lying in the leaves."
She says the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office is working to identity the woman and determine how she died.
Carboni asks anyone with information to reach out.
"If anyone was in the area of the Northlake Nature Center (including the trails leading from the center to Pelican Park) Wednesday (November 11) and saw or heard anything, please contact the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office at (985) 898-2338."
