SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Authorities said a homeless woman led them to a decomposed body after she was seen walking down the street with a human skull on a stick. Police stopped her at an abandoned house. Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said the woman told police she found the skull and led them to an abandoned homeless camp a few blocks away. That's where officers found the rest of a decomposing body. The coroner will determine the identity of the remains and the cause of death.
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