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Manukau Counties police are to release more details about the weighted down body of woman - whose identity remains a mystery - found floating in a river.
The decomposed body was found wrapped in bedding and weighted down by a rock in the Wairoa River near the township of Clevedon on January 20.
She was wearing only a T-shirt and incontinence pants which are to be displayed at a media conference later today in the hope of jogging the memory of members of the public.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Gutry told NZPA earlier that police were continuing to canvass residents in the area and review missing persons files but they were no closer to identifying her.
They were hoping that people returning home from holiday might hold the key to solving the mystery.
A post-mortem examination revealed the woman was dead when she was placed in the river and her body had been there for about a week before it was found by a kayaker.
She was described as between 30 and 50, 1.55m tall, about 45 to 50kg in weight and having black hair below her shoulders.
She was missing two front teeth, which she was believed to have lost well before her death, was a heavy smoker and had borne children.
- NZPA
