By The newspaper
Feb 29, 2024, 3:01 PM EST
A girl walking to school found an arm lying in a park on Long Island (NY) this morning.
According to Suffolk County Police, the human remains were discovered in a wooded area in Southards Pond Park at 8:41 a.m. today, on the west side of Siegal Boulevard, in the town of Babylon.
During a subsequent close search, a police dog (K-9) unit located a leg sticking out of a pile of leaves in a wooded area on Graham Place between Beverly Road and Martin Place. It is not clear if both limbs belonged to the same victim, which must be determined by forensic medicine.
According to the police present at the scene, it does not appear that the arm had been there for a long time, he said. ABCNews. The girl who found him called her father, who then contacted 911.
The arm was tattooed and the fingertips had been cut off. No descriptive details have been disclosed about the leg. The case is being treated as a homicide, although no further human remains have been found. The medical examiner must determine how long these limbs had been cut off and try to identify the victim.
Long Island and Queens are two of the areas with the greatest presence of Mara Salvatrucha in the US, where dozens of homicides and disappearances are attributed to it, with mutilated bodies dumped in wooded areas. The group of Central American origin is associated with recruiting young men and women, mostly of Latin origin.
In general, the discovery of bodies in public places is common in New York and sometimes it takes time to identify the victims. In recent days two women have been found dead floating in the Hudson River, off Manhattan.
In mid-November, a body without a head or arms was found in the sand of a beach in the Rockaways neighborhood. It was the third body found in a public area in Queens in less than a week.
At the end of October, an adult human body was found inside a garbage bag on a street in The Bronx (NYC). In September, a body with larvae was found in the parking lot of a TD Bank branch in Queens (NYC).
In January 2021, human remains were found in a park on Staten Island, along with a calendar from the year 2005. Months later, it was determined that the bones were from a short man (between 4’11” and 5’5″). , possibly Asian or Hispanic, and who had been murdered on an unspecified date. But so far the victim has not been identified and there have been no arrests.
In the fall of 2020, two newborn twins were left dead in a high-traffic residential area in the Bronx and more than three years later, no one has been arrested in the case.
Anyone with information about these cases should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
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