It can be challenging to identify the bodies of people who were homeless when they died. For a woman killed Sunday on an F train, the circumstances of her death could make it even harder.

Officers with NYPD have stated the woman who was lit on fire while allegedly asleep was burned so badly that the only means of identifying her will most likely come through dental records.

New York City police have arrested a man on murder and arson charges in the death of a woman who was set on fire inside a subway train early Sunday morning.

A man accused of lighting a woman’s clothes on fire aboard a New York City subway was arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court on Tuesday for first and second degree murder charges in addition to arson according to the Associated Press.

Everything we know about the woman fatally burned on the New York City subway - The man accused of lighting a woman on fire on a New York City subway made his first appearance in court on Tuesday