A woman was found dead in the Pittsburg suburbs and investigators are currently trying to identify her. The woman’s dead body was found bound with duct tape and with her uterus cut open. Police found her corpse in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own.
So far, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office has uncertainly identified the dead woman as Kia Johnson, but the office still has to use dental records in order to confirm the identity. They may find out who the victim really was on Sunday. The victim was an 18-year-old woman and was due to deliver July 30, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.
According to Allegheny County Police Assistant Superintendent James Morton, police investigators are trying to find out whether the victim was the mother of a baby brought by Andrea Curry-Demus to West Penn Hospital on Thursday night.
"Circumstances would dictate that it has to be. There can't be too many cases similar to this at the same time," Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams said.
The dead body was found Friday after reporters contacted the police about a stinking odor coming from inside Curry-Demus' Wilkinsburg apartment. When police officers entered the apartment and found the corpse, two days had passed since the woman was murdered. According to the police report, her hands were bound with duct tape and her face was covered with a plastic material.
Williams said they found several evidence that a struggle had occurred. Investigators found evidence of drugs at the crime scene. The woman was clearly pregnant and her dead body showed signs of a partial evisceration (her abdomen had been opened with a sharp weapon and the uterus had been opened). Detectives found placenta at the scene.
Investigators haven’t determined yet what caused the woman’s death.
Curry-Demus, the woman who brought the baby to West Penn Hospital on Thursday, reportedly told police investigators that she paid a woman named Tina $1,000 for the baby. Police arrested Curry-Demus and charged her of child endangerment and dealing in infant children.