St. Louis police have identified a dead body found early Thursday as a St. Louis man who went missing nearly two weeks ago.
Demo workers discovered the lifeless body of Robert Lovings Polk, 22, under discarded drywall behind a Frederick Street house in the Baden neighborhood, according to reports.
He was “in a state of decomposition,” and it took investigators several hours to positively identify him, authorities said.
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The Army reservist was last seen on Oct. 3 when he left his mother's house to look at a car he'd seen listed on Craigslist, his mother, Hayleen Jones, previously told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Police circulated pictures of Polk on Wednesday, revealing detectives suspected his disappearance was likely the result of "foul play." Those suspicions were confirmed shortly after sunrise on Thursday, when workers made the gruesome discovery of a hoodie-clad corpse, lying face down near an alley behind the run-down garage.
“It looks like he had been dragged because there was a blood trail,” worker Daniel Parker, 29, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.…