Mystery as HUMAN LEG found in a tire only blocks from where woman’s torso discovered last week as cops open probe
A HUMAN leg has been found inside a discarded tire just blocks away from where a woman’s limbless torso was discovered last week.
The grisly find was discovered on Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills section in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon.
New York City Police Department officials said a man spotted the limb inside a garbage bag sticking out of a tire across the street from an auto repair shop.
The remains were taken to the city Medical Examiner’s office for further examination.
The gruesome discovery was less than three blocks from where a woman’s headless, limbless torso was found on Thursday.
The unidentified torso was found with no arms or legs inside a garbage bag in a shopping cart on Atlantic Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York.
Detectives are attempting to use DNA to identify the person; however, there is an absence of anything to match dental or fingerprint records.
Officials are also looking at surveillance footage that may show a person or people pushing the cart in the area before it was found.
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A medical examiner is set to conduct an autopsy to determine how the woman died.
It’s unclear whether the two discoveries are linked, but officials have launched an investigation to try and solve the cases.
LOS ANGELES HORROR
Also last week, a woman’s burning body was found stuffed inside a shopping cart in Los Angeles‘ Chinatown district.
Police have launched an investigation after a worker spotted the blaze just before 5am on March 2.
They’re unsure if the woman died before being put inside the cart.
The victim has not yet been identified, and officers are unsure if she was homeless.
LAPD Lt Ryan Rabbett said: “The fire was still burning – that person did use a fire extinguisher to put out that fire.”
Cops say that the woman’s death is suspicious.
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