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Body found in shallow grave in Detroit identified as woman missing since September

By and FOX 2 Staff
Published  January 9, 2023 10:43am EST
Crime and Public Safety
FOX 2 Detroit
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Alyssa Itchue, 28, has been identified as the woman whose body was found in a shallow grave last week on Detroit's east side.

DETROIT (FOX 2) - The Wayne County Medical Examiner says it has confirmed the identity of a woman who was found after a DTE discovered her hand sticking out of a shallow grave last week.

Alyssa Itchue has been identified as the woman whose body was found by a utility worker Hildale near Outer Drive and Van Dyke. 

Itchu, 28, was reported missing on Sept. 20. On Nov. 18, when Detroit Police Shared a missing person poster on social media, they said she was known to frequent the city's east side, which was where her body was found.

Authorities were able to identify her based on her fingerprints.

The remains were found in the backyard of a home on the city's east side Wednesday night by a DTE Energy worker who reported finding the hand sticking out of the ground. Detroit Police and the FBI were at the scene as recently removed by workers in HAZMAT suits. 

A friend of the family set up a GoFundMe page for Itchue's family and is talking with FOX 2's Jessica Dupnack about her death.

Lingering questions remain after body found in shallow grave on Detroit's east side

Among all the garbage and overgrown brush – a utility worker spotted a woman’s hand sticking out of the ground - and beneath it her body buried in a shallow grave.