Investigators have made a grim discovery during the search for Brian Tarrence, a New Yorker who disappeared in Turks and Caicos.

Police on the Caribbean island have not identified the body as the missing New Yorker — but the grisly find was very close to his hotel.

Amid a search for a missing New York City man in Turks and Caicos, officials said that a man’s body in a "state of decomposition" was recovered.