Philadelphia police are looking for a person of interest in the death of a mother whose body was found in a shallow grave.
Investigators made the discovery in the 900 block of Tustin Road in the city’s Fox Chase neighborhood on Thursday afternoon.
The person of interest police are searching for is the victim’s boyfriend.
“We searched for her for six days,” said Martha Lee Fred of the search for her sister, 29-year-old Melody Rivera, who the family last heard from Halloween night.
When police found a woman’s body Thursday afternoon, Fred got the news she and her family had been dreading.
“It turned out, unfortunately, that it indeed was her,” she said.
“They found a shallow grave and the body,” said Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore of the discovery.
The medical examiner has not yet determined a cause of death, but police are looking for Rivera’s boyfriend, Geovanni Otero, who is 29 years old.
He is considered a “person of interest.” Police say he’s already wanted in another case.