Horror: Severed hands found in New York apartment; possible link to burned corpse

A pair of severed hands were found in a pot of bleach last night in an apartment in the Bronx (NYC) and may have been dismembered from the corpse that was found burning yesterday in a shopping cart in Yonkers, according to police sources.

Detectives were executing a search warrant inside an apartment on Rogers Place near East 163rd Street in Longwood around 11:30 p.m. Monday when they made the gruesome discovery, police said. New York Post. They also found a gun and drug paraphernalia inside a bedroom and a bag in the refrigerator containing possible additional human remains, police said.

Hours earlier, around 2 a.m., a burning body was found in a shopping cart beneath the Oak St. bridge that spans the Bronx River Road, Bronx River Parkway and the Metro-North railroad tracks that run between Grand Central Terminal and upstate New York. That victim has not been identified, but it is possible the two cases are connected. The city medical examiner’s office (OCME) is working to identify the remains and officially determine the cause and time of death.

Investigators found a pot of bleach on the kitchen floor with two hands sticking out of it. A black bag discovered inside the freezer likely contained more remains, including at least one leg, but investigators had not yet opened it, the sources said.

The building’s superintendent, a 65-year-old man who declined to give his name, told the New York Post that the tenant of the fourth-floor apartment where the remains were found was “into drugs” and that he had received complaints before, but did not elaborate. “I’ve never seen anything like this… This is the first time I’ve seen something like this happen here.”

Investigators believe that earlier yesterday two people loaded more body parts into a shopping cart, loaded it onto a Metro-North train and then drove it to Sherwood Avenue and Bronx River Parkway in Yonkers, where they set it on fire.

After the fire was extinguished under the bridge, firefighters and police found the body. An investigation determined that although the body was set on fire in Yonkers (Westchester County), it was transported there, so the homicide investigation was handed over to the New York police and the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, police said.

No arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). They can also be reached via crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

It is common to find whole or partial bodies in public places in New York and nearby areas, and it sometimes takes time to identify the victims. Last month, a woman was found dead with her head shot inside an abandoned sleeping bag in Midtown East, Manhattan (NYC) and her roommate was later arrested as a suspect.

Exactly one year ago NYPD found a body in a shopping cart in The Bronx, almost 10 miles south of Yonkers in August 2023. That corpse was wrapped in plastic.

Also in March 2022, police officers in Brooklyn (NYC) discovered the dismembered body of a woman in a shopping cart outside a pawn shop in an industrial area of ​​East New York, near an elevated subway line.

Last week, two bodies were discovered in wooded areas outside New York City: one in a park in Yonkers and another on Long Island. In May, a human head was found floating in Jamaica Bay, Queens. Earlier that month, a man was found dead floating in waters near the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan.

Days later, human remains found submerged in a creek in New Jersey were identified as those of Charles Murphy, a man who had been missing since 1982, prosecutors said. In April, a case that had been open for nearly 39 years was also closed in New Jersey: the newborn found dead in a bag in a park on Christmas Eve 1984.

Between February 29 and early March, two dissected human bodies were found in wooded areas of Long Island (NY). They were later identified as Malcolm Craig Brown (53) and his partner Donna Conneely (59), and a cousin of his was arrested along with three other people.

In January 2021, human remains were found in a park in Staten Island along with a calendar from 2005. Months later, it was determined that the bones were those of a short man (between 4’11” and 5’5″), possibly Asian or Hispanic, 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 abandoned dead in a high-traffic residential area in the Bronx (NYC) and more than three years later, no one has been arrested in the case.