CINCINNATI —

Neighbors on Enslin Street in the CUF area are still shaken by a Tuesday morning discovery last week.

UC students discovered a women's body wrapped in plastic laying on the sidewalk.

The Hamilton County Coroner's Office identified the woman as 45-year-old Carrie Graf today. Her cause of death is still pending.

The area where her body was found has neighbors particularly concerned. Overgrown trees hover over the sidewalk and nearly reach the ground.

Chip Kussmaul, president of the CUF Neighborhood Association said property maintenance issues and blight continue to plague CUF neighborhoods with little action from the city.

"We've had decades of this with very little to show for it," he said. "The problem properties just keep on being problem properties. Nothing happens."

Kussmaul acknowledged that a big part of the problem is property owners that abandon or neglect their property and then ignore warnings from the city.

"There needs to be some teeth in the law and just really some push to make things really happen instead of just talking about it and going through the motions," he said. "It just goes on and on."

A neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said she fears the neglected area will continue to attract crime or suspicious activity.

"I think if it was cleared, they couldn't have done it. They couldn't have hid the body," she said. "I'm not gonna say I'm not concerned because I am."

WLWT reached out to the city of Cincinnati about the Enslin Street property. A spokeswoman told WLWT the city is working to learn the owner of the property and if a history of complaints or citations exists.

The spokeswoman told WLWT a representative with the city will be reaching out to the neighbor most impacted on Wednesday.

City residents dealing with similar issues of blight, eyesores and neglect are urged to report their concerns on the Fix It Cincy app or by calling 513-591-6000. Each complaint is given a tracking number. Residents who call should request that tracking number. It can be used to check the status of your complaint.

Police shot a man to death in Covington on June 18 and released details about the confrontation hours later. Information about the Wednesday shooting death of a suspect wanted by U.S. Marshals took a full day to reach the public.

Kentucky State Police officers are investigating both incidents, as they do with most shootings involving police in the state of Kentucky. So why does the time between official statements vary so much?

The short answer, according to former University of Cincinnati police chief Gene Ferrara, is that police need time to verify what they’ve found before they start sharing information with the public or press.

“There's just so much about the investigation that really should be guarded in order to maintain the veracity of the investigation,” Ferrara said.

Ferrara, who spent 50 years in law enforcement, said many things complicate basic fact-finding: The number of witnesses, officers and agencies involved; the evidence at the scene; and the physical area in which a shooting occurs.

More police departments means more complication and more internal bureaucracy. The involvement of federal agencies such as the U.S. Marshals Service increases the workload even more.

“The smaller the investigation to uncover everything is, the quicker it can be done,” Ferrara said.

And if facts don’t line up right away at the scene, police need time to undertake deeper investigations, seek more interviews and gain a clear idea about what happened before they arrived.

“The more the statements of witnesses agree, then the less I have to go out to others,” according to Ferrara.

He compares the post-shooting investigation to elephant-watching. Two people looking at opposite ends of an elephant might describe completely different animals — it’s investigators’ job to take these disparate facts and figure out how they fit together.

Sometimes, seeing the whole elephant is easy. Sometimes it’s not.

Ferrara said disparities in the amount of time police take to release a statement about a shooting are not innately reason for concern.