Body encased in concrete found in basement of Philadelphia home 

A body encased in concrete was found in the basement of a Philadelphia home after police received a tip that a missing woman had been buried there.

The body was found in a row home in the 5200 block of Burton Street in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia after the police received a tip last week. 

When the police entered the home, they found a hoarding situation. They spent two days removing trash and other objects. By Thursday evening, police found evidence of human remains. 

By Monday, officials reached the remains of a woman, which were buried beneath a foot of concrete. They had to chisel out the body from the concrete. 

The body has yet to be identified but police believe it belongs to a woman who had been missing for eight years. 

An autopsy will be conducted on the remains by the medical examiner to determine the cause of death and whether they died before they were buried in the concrete. 

Neighbors of the house told WPVI that the family living in the house had not been seen for days. 

“You don’t know what’s going on — all these rumors, all these stories,” said neighbor Melissa Rosario. “It took them so long to clean out the house. It’s like, ‘Oh, maybe it’s a lie and maybe there’s not a body there.’ And then to hear the body was there for eight years?”

“The girl has been missing eight years,” one neighbor told ABC 6. “The family was in and out of there all the time. At least they finally found her.”

“It’s scary. I don’t know what happened in that house,” another neighbor said.