Police ID body found burning in park as 23-year-old woman

UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (AP) - Police have identified a woman whose body was found burning in a park in Ohio.

Police in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington say the woman was identified as 23-year-old Bobbie Renee Simpson. Police say she wasn’t a resident of Upper Arlington, but they haven’t said where she was living.

Officer Bryan McKean says firefighters were called to Burbank Park after 8:30 a.m. Sunday on the report of a fire near a walking trail and found Simpson’s body after extinguishing the blaze.

Authorities haven’t provided a cause of death.

The state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is assisting police in their investigation.

The police are asking anyone who may have seen Simpson recently or has any information related to the investigation to contact them.