POLICE say the identity of a woman whose remains were found in a barrel will be a mystery until they can comb missing persons files.
A forklift was used this afternoon to remove the barrel and its gruesome contents and load it into a forensics van, the Herald Sun reports.

Pathologists are expected to perform an autopsy tomorrow to determine the woman’s cause of death.

Homicide Squad detective Sgt Peter Trichias said it was a shocking case.

“For the body to be discarded the way it was is pretty gruesome,” he said.

“Early indications is that it is probably the body of a female but we have to confirm that with a pathologist.



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“We don’t know the identity of the female or the circumstances of the death.”

Homicide detectives were called to a business in Melbourne's Merola Way, Campbellfield today after the grisly discovery was made.



The barrel was found in a lake at Jack Roper Reserve last Wednesday and fished out by local contractors.




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