Person Found Dead In Home Northeast Of Boulder

BOULDER COUNTY, CO — A person was found dead Saturday in a home northeast of Boulder, officials said.

Deputies responded to a request for a welfare check of an elderly woman who lived at the home, in the 3900 block of Bosque Court in the Palo Park neighborhood. When the officers went inside the home, they found a "badly decomposed body," the sheriff's office said. It's unclear whether the body was the elderly woman, officials said.

"Due to the cause of death not being readily evident, this case is being treated as a homicide," the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

"Treating an investigation of this nature as a homicide is common practice and done out of an abundance of caution."

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The person's identity and cause of death will be determined by the Boulder County Coroner’s Office.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Pontiakos at 303-441-3379.