HAPEVILLE, Ga. — Hapeville police investigating after a woman’s body found near Interstate 85 Wednesday afternoon.
Police the woman was in a ditch at Willingham Bridge.
The man who found the body, Matthew Harris, says he was cleaning a parking lot alongside I-85 Wednesday afternoon when he saw clothing on the fence and a purse sitting on top of a bin.
Initially Harris thought the woman's body was a mannequin.
"Just kind of curious as to why there were things there, started walking along the fence line where the trees were at," Harris said.
"I mean I find all kinds of stuff along these roads and properties," Harris said.
Harris told Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes he thought the woman was hit by a car, but when he noticed she only had a shirt on, he thought maybe this was a sexual assault and murder.
Authorities are investigating the death as being under “suspicious circumstances.”
Investigators are still working to identify the woman.