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By Eric Levy

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Oct. 18, 2014) -- Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are investigating a body discovered behind a business.

A person found that body Saturday afternoon in an alley between Yandes St. and Columbia Ave. near 20th St., which is just north of downtown.

The Marion County coroner later identified the deceased as Edna Wilson, who'd been reported missing on Oct. 9. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday.

"It's awful scary," said Joanne LeNoir, a neighbor who had recently learned of the discovery. "I've got a security system and all that kind of stuff on my house, it's still scary."

LeNoir has lived in that neighborhood more than 40 years, and remembers the way it used to be.

"This was a thriving neighborhood, it was houses on both sides of the street, lots of children, lots of play," she said.

Now, there are a lot of overgrown bushes, vacant houses and police investigating serious crimes.

"It's just awful," she said.

LeNoir's neighborhood has seen too much of this type of activity in just last few months. Back on June 5, Police were called out to 22nd Street and Columbia Avenue, where they found the remains of Selese Goss. The woman's head had been separated from her body. Three days before that, Loy Ofsthun's body was found in a vacant lot near 20th and Columbia.

"We feel like it's very serious situation to have that many bodies in one area," said John Rose, a community outreach group member.

Rose helped jump-start National Trailblazers Community Outreach after the two bodies were found in June. He's gone out to clean up the overgrown vacant lots and freshen up the neighborhood hoping to prevent something like this from happening.

"We feel like we trying to do something to improve the condition of the neighborhood and the safety of the neighborhood," Rose said.