Dismembered body found in Hegewisch garage

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man's dismembered body was found inside a garage Chicago's Hegewisch neighborhood just days after a missing persons report was issued for a man from the same address.

The body parts, wrapped in plastic and a blanket, were found by a woman Sunday at 3:20 p.m. at a home in the 13300-block of South Avenue M on the city's Far South Side. She told police she smelled something, so looked inside a garbage container and found the remains wrapped in bubble wrap.

"I walk my dogs. I go by that garage all the time. I walk down that alley. I never caught any smells or whatever, anything out of place over there," Robert Oshwat, neighbor, said.

Last week, Chicago police issued an alert for Milan Lekich, 51, who disappeared from the same address. He was last seen in June 2013.

"I was surprised. This is quite a calm neighborhood, to hear something like that, it's kind of earth shaking," Jerry Nelson, friend, said.

Lekich's ill wife was located last month in her Fowler, Ind., home. However, her mother is also missing.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has received the dismembered body but has yet to identify it. An autopsy is pending.