COSHOCTON COUNTY, OH (WCMH) — Deputies have identified the body found along a Coshocton County road as a woman from Newark.

The victim’s mother identified the woman as Heather Nicole Levi Ayers Cardenas, 27. She tells NBC4’s Shawn Lanier her daughter lived in the Newark area, was married and also the mother of two kids.

Deputies found her body Wednesday evening around 6:28pm near a small wooded area off Township Road 68 in Coshocton County.

Sheriff Timothy Rogers says the circumstances of the woman’s death appear suspicious, but a cause of death has not been determined. The incident remains under investigation.