A MOM-OF-FOUR was crushed to death in a trash compactor, cops have revealed, after finding chopped-up body parts in bags.

Officers from the New York Police Department have given a grim update into the murder probe that was triggered when the body parts of Michelle Montgomery were found in the trash.

Michelle Montgomery, 39, died after falling into a trash chute and being crushed aliveCredit: Instagram

She leaves behind her four children and heartbroken husbandCredit: Shutterstock
The 39-year-old married mother likely fell into the garbage chute of an apartment block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after she left a bar on January 31, police sources revealed on Friday.

It is now believed that rather than being killed and her body dismembered and put in bags in the trash, that she accidentally fell in while trying to get her purse.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny says her screams were heard by residents inside the building but went ignored for some unknown reason.

After falling into the compactor, she would have been crushed alive and her body automatically put in plastic trash bags along with other waste from the building, he said.

“We have numerous witnesses stating that they hear screaming coming from the second-floor chute,” Kenny explained.

“Our theory right now is that she may have dropped an item into the shoot and wanted to retrieve it, and fell headfirst into the chute.”

The mother’s leather purse and ID were located at the scene and the medical examiner concluded that she was alive when she entered the compactor.

The horror incident left her with broken ribs, deep cuts on her head and torso, along with wounds on her upper thigh and pelvis — all caused by the trash compactor, Kenny said.

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Parts of her body were then separated into small bags which are then collected into a bigger bag by the compactor.

It is unclear why Montgomery, who lived in the Gowanus neighborhood, walked into the Borinquen Public Houses where she had no clear connection.

She had been out at a bar with friends from around 9:30pm earlier that night, cops said.

Her remains were found by NYCHA workers in the basement of the building the following morning on February 1.

There is no suspicion of foul play in her death, the NYPD said.

“It is [shocking] because she left this house alive, vibrant, happy with friends, and she never came back,” her husband, Anthony Echevarria, 37, told The Post.

“I expected my wife to come back home.”

Montgomery leaves behind her husband and four children – a 10 month old son, two daughters aged 11 and 12 and a 19-year-old son.

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