KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A jogger spotted a woman's body in Brush Creek on Monday afternoon, police said.

Police were called to Cleaver Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue just after 2 p.m. The body was found floating near a concrete post in the water.

Don Love said the first time he ran by the area, he noticed some turtles perched on top of what he thought was a sandbag.

"Then I got up closer and I thought, 'That looks like a body.' So I thought to myself, 'That's crazy.' And I kept jogging," Love told KMBC's Martin Augustine.

He said he ran for a few minutes and then decided to turn around and check out exactly what he saw.

"I saw the turtles still on there, and I saw the little limbs where the knees bend. I thought to myself, 'That's a body,'" Love said.

Then he called 911.

Love told KMBC's Martin Augustine that the body was bloated and discolored, and that it was "awful" to see it.

Police said it's not known how long the body had been in the creek. Investigators said the body is in a terrible state of decay and that they can't even tell the woman's race.

The medical examiner will perform tests to try to identify the woman and determine a cause of death.