A decomposed body was found inside a flooded US Steel pump house in a US city earlier this week.
At about 6.47pm on Tuesday local time, police and fire crews in Joliet, Illinois, responded to the property at 941 Collins Street after three men and a woman found the body while exploring the site.
Upon entering the flooded pump house, officers found the body of a dead man in about four to five feet (1.2m to 1.5m) of water.
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Police said the body was in the “advanced stage of decomposition.”
A representative from US Steel confirmed the location is an old property and has been closed for a long time.
The body was recovered by the Joliet Fire Department.
The Will County Coroner’s Office will determine the identification of the man and his cause of death.
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