00:00Forensic investigators combed through the contents of a suburban home, trying to find
00:07answers to a shocking death.
00:09It's terrible, you know, it's scary, because actually this street is very safe, it's very
00:16quiet, because most of the people here are old people, like me.
00:21The police descended after staff at a nearby tip discovered a woman's body while moving
00:26green waste.
00:27The body was found in Epping on Wednesday.
00:30Police then traced the bin they believed it arrived in, and suspect it was picked up in
00:35Coolaroo on Tuesday.
00:37Several items, including bottles and a sheepskin, were recovered from a bin in the driveway
00:42of the property on Hillgate Street.
00:44Detectives also used a locksmith to gain access to another nearby house, and photographed
00:50the property next door and taking green samples from the garden.
00:54This usually quiet street in Coolaroo has been taken over by police and crime scene
00:59investigators.
01:01Most neighbours I've spoken to haven't wanted to go on camera, but say they don't know what's
01:05happened here.
01:06But they have said that the house that's been taped off had been sold recently, and that
01:11an older woman had been renting there.
01:14But one person across the road says he did notice a man near the bins at the house.
01:19Just at night time, you know, he came out, was looking into the bins, I don't know what
01:23he was doing, maybe he was bringing him inside, and then he went back inside.
01:27I'm living here nearly more than 17, 18 years, so I know the people, I know the street, yeah,
01:33we are like a family.
01:35Police are waiting for the results of a post-mortem to identify the woman, and are asking anyone
01:41with CCTV or dash cam footage from the area to come forward.
01:45Natasha McFarlane, ABC News.
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