Ashley Moorhead, 26, was found strangled and dumped in one of these
Last Friday morning, about
two blocks from the fashionable Cherokee Street arts district, a homeowner in Gravois Park
looked out to the alleyway behind his house.
He thought he spied a man stealing his green city-provided trash can.
The homeowner confronted the man, who bolted. But then the homeowner looked inside the can and found a dead body.
Police have confirmed it was
Ashley Moorhead, age 26, formerly of the 3200 block of Texas Avenue (i.e., just a block north of the Cherokee neighborhood).
She had been strangled. The investigation is ongoing, police say.
Here's where it happened: