Police were called after a member of the public found a body in a recycling bin.
The grim discovery was made in Scalby, Scarborough, at 6am on Friday.
Detectives and specialist teams from the North Yorkshire force are currently at the scene and a cordon is in place.
Enquiries are ongoing, but officers do not believe there are any suspicious circumstances.
Related posts:
Horseracing authority made aware of video showing someone jumping on back of a dead horse
Drug dealers found with £500k of cocaine after 100mph police chase
From self-isolation to mass events – every rule that’s set to change on ‘Freedom Day’
Britain’s first black policewoman Sislin Fay Allen dies in Jamaica
Far too little has happened for powerless homes across the North after Storm Arwen
Woman, 51, felt ‘overwhelming shame’ after believing she had been spiked
Drink-driving mother jailed for killing daughter, four, and son, 10, in M1 crash
Queen to send royals to all four UK nations to mark Platinum Jubilee
Mother-of-five died after eating Pret a Manger wrap
Man with ‘fixation’ on accessing royal grounds admits Buckingham Palace trespass
Record number of ‘foreign objects’ left inside patients after surgical blunders
‘Blown apart’: Five swans killed after flying into Hinkley power lines
