INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — Investigators want to learn the identity of a body found in a shallow grave, buried in concrete.
It sounds like a plot from a murder mystery book, but it's an active case that happened Wednesday northwest of downtown.
Metro Police are calling it a death investigation and they haven't identified the person they found yet, or released a cause of death.
The discovery has caught the attention of people who live and work nearby.
Sources tell Eyewitness News the body was found during a police follow-up investigation in the 1200 block of W. 29th Street.
"To even get to a floor to get to concrete they had to move a ton of stuff, I'm assuming. You would never find anything in there," said Brad Perdiew, who said he'd been inside the building where the body was found.
Perdiew runs a motorcycle racing team business next door. He says the building was being used for a home improvement business.
"It's like what you would imagine if you inherited everything inside of Lowe's and you had to put it in your garage. That's what it looks like," Perdiew said of the building's interior condition.
Perdiew says he hasn't seen the business owner in a long time.
"He used to be there every day when I was there, and over the last year I never see him there," he said.
Eyewitness News reached out to the landlord of the property, Prime Site Brokers. They responded with an email saying, "We have been in the process of evicting the tenant at 1267 W 29th. Now we have more reason to get them out."
Meanwhile, customers of the auto body shop next door wait for answers.
"I'm still waiting to find out who it is. There's probably a lot of people up here looking for people, you never know," April Rivers said.
Perdiew is curious, too.
"It's seriously like TV drama stuff," he said.