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Body Found Wrapped In Carpet In Fairmount Park Woods

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Police are investigating a body found in some woods in Fairmount Park.

Authorities say a passerby stumbled upon the body of an unidentified black male, wrapped in a carpet around 2:37 p.m. in some woods near the 2400 block of Reservoir Drive.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police did not give an approximate age for the "John Doe."

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