By Associated Press - Wednesday, September 20, 2017

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say a woman’s body was found under a pile of trash in South Carolina, and it appears she died a while back.

Richland County Sheriff’s Lt. Curtis Wilson says workers picking up trash near a tire shop in Columbia found the body Wednesday morning.

The coroner’s office has not released the woman’s name or how she died.

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Wilson did not know exactly how long investigators think the body had been under the trash at the business just off Interstate 20 in northeast Richland County.

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