Woman found dead in dumpster at Lehigh County bank identified; death ruled a homicide

Authorities have identified a woman whose body was found in a dumpster over the weekend in Lehigh County and ruled her death a homicide.

Lucrecia E. Jadan Sumba, 39, of Elizabeth in Union County, New Jersey, was found dead just before 6 p.m. Saturday in a dumpster outside the Santander Bank branch in the 200 block of South Third Street in Coopersburg, which also is Route 309, according to a news release from the Lehigh County district attorney’s office.

An autopsy confirmed her cause of death was sharp-force injuries, with the manner homicide…

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