DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Daytona Beach police have identified on Thursday the woman whose body was found in the back yard of an abandoned house.
Police said Faith Jenkins, 35, was found dead at around 8 p.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of Kingston Avenue.
A caretaker for the abandoned house checked the property and discovered a partially clothed female body in the yard, Daytona Beach police said.
Police said Jenkins lived at the Halifax Urban Ministries homeless shelter on North Street.
Friends told Local 6 that Jenkins' boyfriend was taken into custody on Wednesday night and was questioned for three hours.
The house was considered a "party house," despite the no trespassing signs, friends told Local 6.
Daytona Beach police are now calling the suspicious death a homicide. They are asking for the public's help to figure out how Jenkins ended up at the abandoned home.
"We are trying to retrace Faith's last 48 hours," said Chief Mike Chitwood, of Daytona Beach Police Department.
Chitwood said witnesses saw Jenkins on Sunday and after police searched through her phone records, they believe someone murdered her sometime Tuesday. Investigators said Jenkins was naked from the waist down and had no signs of outside trauma.
"No outside gunshot wounds, didn't appear to be strangled stabbed, nothing. However, when they did the autopsy they discovered and that internal trauma can only be caused by a human being doing something to another human being," Chitwood said.
Jenkins was a well-known prostitute who went to the house on Kingston Avenue. Police also brought up that it's been eight years since a prostitute was murdered and said while it's a possibility it could be a serial killer, Chitwood doesn't believe so.
"Obviously, it's something in the back of our minds, but right now we're in the beginning stages of the investigation, that's not the avenue we're taking. There are some other avenues and of course there are forensics that we're waiting to get back," Chitwood said.
Jenkins was a victim of domestic violence back in March. The suspect was arrested for it and has since been released from jail.
Police are also trying to get surveillance video that shows Jenkins on Monday, the day before she died.
The property caretaker had last checked the property April 11, police said.
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