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SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — Firefighters battling a suspicious fire in a vacant house found a man’s decomposing body untouched by flames in a first-floor room early Wednesday, authorities said.
How long the body had been inside 59 Twin Ave. remains under investigation. “There was a skull on the floor sticking out of a blanket,” Spring Valley Fire Inspector Frank Youngman said. “We first thought it was like a Halloween prank.”
After pulling back the blanket, firefighters found more skeletal remains, Youngman said. The firefighters then left the house and police and fire investigators took over. An anthropologist will be called in to try to identify the man, Spring Valley police Lt. Jack Bosworth said.
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