MANCHESTER, Conn. -- Police are working to determine the identity of a body found buried in Manchester.
Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Len Besthoff reported that officers received at tip about the body while conducting a separate investigation.
Manchester police executed a search warrant at 55 Lake Street, looking for the body of Christopher Petrozza, a 25-year-old man from Ellington who was reported missing nine months ago. Police went to the home based on information developed by Detective Jeff Lampson during a separate investigation.
Besthoff reported that police found the body Tuesday early Tuesday afternoon behind a shed in the home's back yard. The body was buried about 3.5 feet underground, according to police.
The property where the body was found is owned by 35-year-old Chadwick St. Louis, a convicted felon who is currently in prison on firearms and counterfeiting charges, according to police.
During the investigation into the other charges, police said St. Louis admitted to killing Petrozza, but claimed that it was an accident.
"He panicked and buried the body. He wouldn't give us a location as to where the body was, but we were able to do some investigating on our own and we were very confident about one area of the residence where we thought it might be," said Sgt. Christopher Davis, of the Manchester Police Department.
Police must still determine if the found body is that of Petrozza's.
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