PASADENA, Md. (AP) — Anne Arundel County police say a partly decomposed human head has been found behind a shopping center in Pasadena.

Lt. Michael Brothers, a police spokesman, tells The Baltimore Sun that officers found the head after being called to a wooded area behind Jumpers Hole Road and Ritchie Highway.

He says the head might be that of a woman. It was taken to the Chief Medical Examiner’s office.

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