PEMBROKE PARK -- A man and a woman were found shot dead just before dawn on Wednesday in a field behind a financial firm.

The victims, both fully clothed, were sprawled next to an unpaved road in a weedy area about 150 feet from the rear of Meekins Financial Corp. at 3500 Pembroke Road.

They had not been identified late Wednesday night. The Broward Medical Examiner's Office said the results of autopsies would not be available until sometime today.

The male victim, in his 50s with gray hair and a round bald spot on top of his head, was lying on his left side. A large splotch of dried blood covered the back of his blue-green plaid shirt. He wore blue pants.

The woman, in her 30s, was lying at his feet. She had brown hair and wore a bright orange skirt and an orange and blue top.

Little is known about the victims other than that they died violently.

"We still don't know who they are or why they're dead," Broward Sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal said. "It's hard to say if it was robbery or not. The man was still wearing a watch. They had some jewelry but no identification."

Investigators did not know if the killings took place where the bodies were found or whether they were dumped there, Leljedal said.

The bodies were discovered about 6:30 a.m. near a line of unused concrete road barriers by an employee of Westwind Contracting Co. of Pembroke Park. He told people at Meekins, who notified the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Three other employees had driven past the spot about 45 minutes earlier and did not see anything, said Richard Demere, a Westwind dredging captain.

"I can't believe that three guys could drive by there with their headlights on, in three separate cars, one behind the other, and not see that," Demere said. "They must have just dropped (the bodies) there.

"Apparently he was shot up pretty good," Demere said. "The world we live in ..."

Crime scene experts from the Sheriff's Office took tire impressions of two Westwind trucks that had passed the bodies during the morning to eliminate the tracks of those vehicles from the numerous tire marks on the dirt road behind the Meekins building.

The deserted area between the building and a large rock pit is a known hangout, said Jim Johnson of Hollywood, a bystander at the scene.

"This is a party area. People come back here to drink late at night and early in the morning," Johnson said. "The police are always chasing people out. There are a lot of drug deals."

Three nearby plastic barrels overflowed with empty beer bottles and food containers.

But the Sheriff's Office said activity in the area is minimal.

"Like any secluded area, people park back there, but I don't think it's a particularly troublesome spot," Leljedal said.

Staff Writer Dana Banker contributed to this report.

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