Man Shoveling Snow Finds Neighbor's Body

A man who visited his mother-in-law’s Niles home to shovel her walk Monday evening found her neighbor’s dead body in snow.

Police were called to the 6800 block of Dobson, where they found Elizabeth Lutz, 55, face down in the parkway at about 6 p.m., according to NBC Chicago reports. She was pronounced dead at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Police attempted CPR on the scene.

The man told police he’d been shoving for about 40 minutes when he saw what he thought was a trash bag in the snow. As he got closer, he realized it was a body. An autopsy was conducted Tuesday with inconclusive results, reports the Sun-Times.

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