By Associated Press - Friday, August 18, 2017

FLORENCE, Pa. (AP) - State police have identified the woman whose body was found earlier this week along a Pennsylvania roadside, and say she’d been killed.

Police say the decomposed body was determined to be 33-year-old Laura Ingalls-Hood. It was discovered Monday by people doing work along Route 711 near Mirror Lake, about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh.

She was wearing black workout pants and a red shirt.



An autopsy revealed the cause of death was homicide.

No other details were released. Anyone with information is asked to call state police.

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