Unsolved mystery: Detectives work to identify human body floating in Homestead canal

Police officers placed an orange cone and crime scene tape near to where a human body was floating in a canal on Friday in Homestead. (Copyright 2023 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.)

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Detectives were gathering information in an effort to identify a person who turned up dead on Friday in deep south Miami-Dade County.

While working on the unsolved mystery, detectives were waiting for the Miami-Dade medical examiner to determine the person’s cause of death.

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Their death investigation started in Miami-Dade’s city of Homestead after a human body was floating in a canal that flows from west to east along a thin rural area known as the Biscayne Everglades Greenway.

Police officers from the Homestead and the Miami-Dade police departments responded to the canal on Friday morning near Southwest 147 Avenue and Northeast Fifth Street.

The Palace Gardens assisted living facility and a Baptist Health Hospital are in the area after the canal flows under the Florida Turnpike.

Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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