Help is needed as police investigate the likely cold blood killing of an elderly Hudson Valley woman.

On Sunday around 12:30 p.m., Monticello police responded to a 911 report of an unresponsive female in an apartment located at the Monticello Meadows apartment complex on Shaker Heights Drive in the Village of Monticello.

Responding officers found a 74 year-old Monticello woman dead at the home. The woman appeared to be the victim of an apparent homicide, police say.

Anyone with information is asked to call Monticello police at 845-794-4422.

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